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Border Widow’s Lament Lyrics by Ye Vagabonds

Rose & Briar

2015

[Verse 1]
My love, he built me a bonny bower
And clad it o'er with lily flower
A finer bower you ne'er did see
Than my true love he built for me
[Verse 2]
There came a man by middle day
He spied his sport and went away
And brought the King that very night
Who broke my bower and slew my knight
[Verse 3]
He slew my knight to me so dear
He slew my knight and poin'd his gear
My servants all for life did flee
And left me in extremity
[Verse 4]
I sewed his sheet, making my moan
I watched the corpse, myself alone
I watched the body night and day
Well, no living creature came that way
[Verse 5]
I took his body on my back
And whiles I went and whiles I sat
I digged a grave and I laid him in
And happed him with the sod so green
[Verse 6]
But think not you that my heart was sore
While I laid the moul' on his yellow hair
Think not ye that my heart was wae
When I turned around, away to go
[Verse 7]
No living man I'll love again
Since that my lovely knight is slain
And with a lock of his yellow hair
I'll chain my heart forevermore
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Ye Vagabonds

Ye Vagabonds

About “Border Widow’s Lament” by Ye Vagabonds

Read the complete lyrics to "Border Widow’s Lament" by Ye Vagabonds from the album "Rose & Briar" in 2015. On Lyrks you can follow along with the full text, explore the artist's discography, and discover related songs. The track is often categorized under Ireland, Country, Folk.

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"Border Widow’s Lament" appears on "Rose & Briar" in 2015.

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