The Stolen Bride-Angelo Branduardi

[ti:The Stolen Bride] [ar:Angelo Branduardi] [al:Fables And Fantasies] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.00]The Stolen Bride - Angelo Branduardi [00:18.73]Three long nights and sleep eludes me [00:23.82]Wait and watch and listen [00:27.13] [00:27.76]But all I hear is the viper sliding [00:31.99]And hissing along the river [00:34.98] [00:36.83]There I wrote this song I sing now [00:41.73]Darkly dressed with sorrow [00:44.58] [00:45.70]About the bride who left her wedding [00:49.65]Slipped out none saw none followed [00:53.39] [00:54.45]No one saw the extra guest [00:57.84] [00:58.97]Beguile her to the threshold [01:02.00] [01:02.81]With smiles and pretty [01:04.11]Words about the beauty of her dress [01:06.94]And persuade her from the feasting [01:10.54] [01:11.78]So naive she followed him [01:15.17] [01:16.15]She thought but for a moment [01:19.36] [01:20.00]We waited her return [01:21.75]Till the candles burnt away [01:24.25]We searched but none could find her [01:27.71] [01:28.74]A fiddler present at the wedding [01:32.70] [01:33.50]Was walking out next morning [01:36.65] [01:37.38]When the strange guest appeared before him [01:41.39]Good day musician said he [01:45.22] [01:46.40]I know you search for one who's missing [01:49.95] [01:51.08]Vanished from her wedding [01:54.03] [01:54.96]If you have a brave heart walk behind me [01:58.93]And I will lead you to her [02:02.56] [02:03.67]A boat as black as fishes bowels [02:07.39] [02:08.14]He rode 'cross shrowded waters [02:11.09] [02:11.95]Untill they came upon the waxen bride [02:16.23]In a dress of gold and silver [02:19.83] [02:20.87]She bade the fiddler take her ring [02:24.21] [02:24.86]Back safe to her beloved [02:28.31] [02:28.99]And said here I remain [02:31.18]And suffer not the world [02:33.14]No pain desire or hatred [02:36.67] [02:46.46]The fiddler took the ring and turning [02:50.60] [02:51.30]Had hardly walked but one step [02:54.67] [02:55.17]When he heard a stiffled cry "Forgive me" [02:59.43]As the misty waters took her [03:02.92] [03:04.40]Shining bright as summer light [03:07.37] [03:08.42]The morning that she married [03:11.50] [03:12.47]What unholy place was [03:14.33]She taken to that day [03:16.30]And by what cold of darkness [03:19.62] [03:21.26]Three long nights and sleep eludes me [03:25.26] [03:26.26]Wait and watch and listen [03:29.37] [03:29.98]But all I hear is the viper sliding [03:34.13]And hissing along the river