I sing this and I'm in my 50s - what's age got to do with it?

A couple of years ago, when I totally fell in love with this song and started learning it, I spent days researching it and the lyrics thing. Here's a very interesting discussion link I found at the time:
Siren discussion

The melody is by Tim Buckley, but the lyrics were written by Larry Beckett, who says (on Morning Glory sleeve): "I brought him (TB)... the lyrics and put them in front of him while he was eating breakfast. There was a pause, he looked at them, picked up his 12-string guitar, and more or less played the song that you hear."

After researching that whole verse 2, line 2 issue, I settled on the "hare and fox" version. I became pretty sure that is what LB wrote, plus it makes the most sense to me - and if you listen to Elizabeth Fraser's version (Mortal Coil), she has quite a strong French(?) accent - bear this in mind as she sings that line, and she is indeed singing "fox", only she pronounces it "foxer" (approx). Also on Virginia's Youtube link, TB is very clearly singing "hare and fox".

I sing the version that Rosie gives above, except I use "riddled as the tide" and "Or should I lie with death my bride".

Another interesting lyrics point is that Beckett originally wrote "puzzled as the oyster", which TB does sing in the Youtube vid, but he changes it in other versions, as do most other singers in versions I've heard.

I sang this once at some friends' divorce ceremony! seemed very appropriate somehow.

Sue