The Water Lily-Jennifer Murphy Rum/Rum Corps Orchestra/Brett Weymark

[ti:The Water Lily] [ar:Barry Ryan] [al:Orchestral Songs of Australia] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.00]The Water Lily - Jennifer Murphy Rum/Rum Corps Orchestra/Brett Weymark [00:08.84]A lonely young wife in her dreaming discerns [00:13.51] [00:14.14]A lily decked pool with a border of ferns [00:18.75] [00:19.48]And a beautiful child with butterfly wings [00:24.36] [00:25.19]Drifts down to the edge of the water and sings [00:30.72] [00:32.00]Come mama come quick follow me [00:37.30]Step out on the leaves of the water lily [00:43.49] [00:44.84]And the lonely young wife her heart beating wild [00:48.99]Cries wait till I come till I reach you my child [00:53.44] [00:54.90]But the beautiful child with butterfly wings [01:00.58] [01:01.30]Steps out on the leaves of the lily and sings [01:07.22] [01:07.84]Come mama come quick follow me [01:12.71] [01:13.30]And step on the leaves of the water lily [01:19.23] [01:20.64]And the wife in her dreaming steps out on the stream [01:25.25]But the lily leaves sink and she wakes from her dream [01:29.74]Oh the waking is sad for the tears that it brings [01:33.33]And she knows its her dead baby's spirit that sings