The Daemon Lover-Alasdair Roberts

[ti:The Daemon Lover] [ar:Alasdair Roberts] [al:Too Long In This Condition] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.00]The Daemon Lover - Alasdair Roberts [00:17.25]Where have you been my long long love [00:22.37]These seven long years or more [00:25.48]I'm seeking for my former vows [00:29.62]You gave to me before [00:33.54]'Oh hold your tongue of your former vows [00:38.44]For they will breed sad strife [00:42.06]Hold your tongue of your former vows [00:45.63]For I'm become a wife [00:48.67] [00:49.45]He's turned him right and round about [00:54.00]And the salt tear blint his ee [00:57.43]I never would have trodden on irish ground [01:01.57]But for the love of thee [01:05.05]If I should leave my dear husband [01:09.44] [01:10.08]And my two babes also [01:13.59]What have you to take me to [01:16.73]If I with you would go [01:20.14] [01:20.71]I've seven ships upon the sea [01:24.99]And the eighth brought me to land [01:27.93] [01:28.54]With four and twenty mariners bold [01:32.42]And music on command [01:35.55] [02:14.02]She's put her foot on board the ship [02:18.91]No mariners she beheld [02:22.01]But the sails were of the taffeta [02:25.01]And the masts of the beaten gold [02:29.13] [02:29.96]They had not sailed a league a league [02:34.82]A league but barely three [02:37.85]Til dismal grew his countenance [02:41.69] [02:42.20]And drumly grew the sea [02:45.29] [02:45.98]They had not sailed a league a league [02:50.47]A league but barely three [02:53.75]Until she saw his cloven foot [02:56.98] [02:57.74]And she wept most bitterly [03:01.49]Leave off your weeping then said he [03:06.20]'Of your weeping let me be [03:08.65] [03:09.18]And I'll show you how the lilies grow [03:13.12]On the banks of italy [03:17.41] [03:22.95]What hill what hill is thon I see [03:28.29] [03:29.53]As white as any snow [03:34.09] [03:35.27]Thon is the hill of heaven' he said [03:39.85]Where all good people go [03:43.43] [03:44.35]'What hill what hill is thon I see [03:49.31] [03:51.00]As black as any coal [03:55.26]Thon is the hill of hell he said [03:59.19]Where you and I must go [04:02.93]He struck the top mast with his hand [04:07.28] [04:07.97]And the main mast with his knee [04:10.38] [04:11.04]And he struck that gallant ship in two [04:14.57]And he sunk her beneath the sea