Under The Lime Tree-Angelo Branduardi

[ti:Under The Lime Tree] [ar:Angelo Branduardi] [al:Highdown Fair] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.00]Under The Lime Tree - Angelo Branduardi [00:26.59]Down in the greenwood under the lime tree [00:30.04]We spent lover's hours [00:32.09] [00:33.45]And if you pass by you'll know we lay there [00:36.74]Look how we crushed all the flowers [00:38.93] [00:39.97]The insects buzzed and the nightingales sang [00:42.92] [00:43.45]High above the forest on a soft south wind [00:46.47] [00:47.49]Point and laugh if you come walking past [00:49.81] [00:50.41]I don't care at all how red her mouth is [00:52.94] [00:59.33]Down in the greenwood under the lime tree [01:02.67]Crushing the grass and the sweet herbs [01:05.31] [01:06.17]There in the roses I laid my head down [01:09.43]See where the petals are disturbed [01:11.95] [01:12.75]And if you accuse her of lying there with me [01:15.75] [01:16.31]This I know for sure she will never be ashamed: [01:19.19] [01:19.83]She was the one the one and only woman [01:22.82]I ever came to wish would whisper my name [01:25.58] [01:26.88]Down in the greenwood under the lime tree [01:30.22]The lily embraces the ivy [01:32.75] [01:33.79]And if you pass by stop look and marvel [01:36.90]At how she has grown to survive him [01:39.44] [01:40.13]For she stayed here with me for just a year [01:43.63]And bound her hair with gold [01:45.10]Oh my little white dove [01:46.68] [01:47.52]One fine day she turned into a hawk [01:50.41]And flew off to the sun to find a new love [01:53.17] [02:03.59]Up in the blue sky ever the wind flies [02:06.78]Searching the clouds of his dreamland [02:09.08] [02:10.20]The dream is for beauty but he'll [02:11.93]Never catch her [02:13.66]She'll always slip through his hands [02:15.99] [02:17.09]And thus we live forever and the dream [02:20.42]Just like the wind and clouds will escape us [02:23.20] [02:37.97]And thus we live forever and the world [02:41.20]Just like the wind and clouds will escape us