RED HAIRED MAN'S WIFE



Oh ye muses divine,

Combine and lend me your aid

To pen these few lines,

For I find that my heart is betrayed

By a virgin most pure,

Who is dearer to me than my life

But from me she is flown,

And is known as the red-haired man's wife



Oh, a letter I'll send

With a friend down to the seashore

To let her understand

I'm the man that does her adore

And if she would but leave that slave

I will fordeit my life

She'd live like a lady

And ne'er be the red-haired man's wife

I offered a favor

And sealed it with my own hand

She thus answered and said

"Would you lead me to break the command?

Oh, take it easy

Since Nature can cause so much strive

I was given away

And will stay as the red-haired man's wife"



May my life never end

Nor my yearning for passion abate

Till me and my darling

lie as one 'neath the pleasant tree's shade

With no one to be near us

Save the black bird in the green leaves alone

And the red-haired man in his grave

With his head 'neath a stone



@love

recorded by Ray Fisher

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