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Thread #61358 Message #3854268
Posted By: Joe Offer
10-May-17 - 01:51 PM
Thread Name: Lyr Req: Mistress (Nancy Nicolson)
Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Mistress (Nancy Nicolson)
YouTube has an Ed Miller recording of the song from his Generations of Change album:
Here's what I hear in the chorus. I have no idea how to interpret the words delphinium put in italics.
(But) Her eyes are dark, her breast is deep,
That steals a wedded woman's sleep,
That tempts good men into her keep,
And will not let them free.
The moon upon her shoulder gleams,
A siren o'er the ocean streams,
Who whispers in the seaman's dreams,
No mistress have but me.