Tulip

Ada, my rarest bud from the desert valley
Your hair of fire and skin of snow
Have coursed me to the heights of the desert mountains
In search of the cure for a rampant fever
Your beautys power, it plagues me now
I come and scour the land for the desert flower
For beauty and perfume
Id stake my house and my lands
The gold is sleeping in the river but the flowers in my hand
With a paler leaf and a broken petal,
Ill paint the king and queen
And to the goldsmith with my flower
Ill buy your wedding ring
Tulip, tulip
With one word
Id a-buyOxen, sheep and wheat and rye
Land on the north seaside
Tulip, tulip
With one word
Id a-buyThe finest dresses man can buy
And a pearl for to pay my bride
Then with my rarest bowl to her fathers garden
Like gold for lamb or wool for clam
I gave that man a bowl for his daughter
AdaYour heart is mine and its mine forever
And she replied, 'my fate that lies on yon horizons tethered me to the sky'
The match arranged, and vows exchanged and the dove flew away
The bells spilled out the hollow canyon on our wedding day
To me she gave her hand and to death do us part
But the bird will nest with one that she has promised her heart
Tulip, tulip
With one word
Id a-buyThe bed from which our sons will rise
And the window where she cries
Tulip, tulip
With one word
Id a-buyA net to catch the birds that fly from the window where she cries
He reaches out and
I withdraw
Spilling the flowering bribes from his paw
The broken petals climbing the walls
Stealing my oxygen, no air at all
From the bed
I hear him call
But I answer cooing when the night falls
The cotton sword is storming the hall
Cutting my vision to no sight at all
I tied the tulip around her neck
Like a red lead sinker
And blindfold and spin around
And round and round
To the banks of the river and then walk
My true love into the rushing water
And by her long hair, bleeding red
Hair-pulled my love there under until she drown
For beauty and perfume
Id stake my house and my lands
My love is sleeping in the river but the flowers in my hand
With a paler leaf and a broken petal
Ill keep her all to me
And to the river with my flower
Ill hear my true love sing
Your water is still in my friend
Ready to drown
Water, water oh water my kin
Carry me out
This Eine river is mercy at last
Die as she laughs for
Hes waiting with a doves nest
My true love
Tulip, tulip
With one word
Id a-buyA veil that parted oer my bride
And the breath as my true love died
Tulip, tulip
With one word
Id a-buyA veil that parted oer my bride
And the blue from the bluest eye