Lovers Leap-John Spillane

[ti:Lovers Leap] [ar:John Spillane] [al:A Rock To Cling To] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.00]Lovers Leap - John Spillane [00:00.63]About a mile from mallow town [00:03.72]There is a place called lover's leap [00:05.92] [00:06.47]A beauty spot of great renown [00:09.18]A jagged rock that rises steep [00:12.08]A lonely cliff above the deep [00:15.18] [00:15.94]Black water [00:19.46] [00:21.43]The gentry planted all these trees [00:24.29]The oak the beech and the lonely pine [00:27.04]And courting couples sometimes please [00:29.80]To wander there and take their time [00:32.14] [00:32.67]And breathe the beauty by the shining [00:35.85] [00:36.73]River [00:39.76] [00:41.98]About a hundred years ago [00:44.61]Or so the local people tell [00:47.29]Under a weight of great sorrow [00:49.98]A handsome courting couple fell [00:52.52] [00:53.20]To their doom inside the dark [00:56.65]Black water [01:00.17] [01:02.52]Lover's leap [01:09.04] [01:10.36]Together in endless peace [01:13.02]Forever in blissful sleep [01:18.01] [01:30.49]A Catholic and Protestant [01:33.43]Had fallen for each other's charms [01:36.42]Their families would not consent [01:38.89]They fled and sought each other's arms [01:42.07]They sought each other's arms and fled [01:45.10]And dived into their marriage bed [01:47.68] [01:48.35]Inside the cold [01:50.10]Black water [01:53.29] [01:55.20]They reached the rocky height that night [01:58.29]One last kiss one last embrace [02:01.01]They cried and held each other tight [02:03.64]Then stepping into endless space [02:06.34]They wandered out into the air [02:09.12]And left this earth for ever more [02:12.16]And reached the sad [02:14.41]Black water [02:18.01] [02:19.74]Their bodied wrapped in endless night [02:22.57]Their souls sailed on into the bright [02:25.19]Encircling stars and the caring moon [02:28.31]The sun shone down upon their love [02:30.79]From heaven's branches high above the dark [02:36.23]Black water [02:39.80] [02:42.05]Lover's leap [02:48.58] [02:49.90]Together in endless peace [02:52.48]Forever in blissful sleep [02:57.57] [02:59.36]The priest he offered up the host [03:02.19]The river offered up the moon [03:04.92]And Jesus wept to see his name [03:07.68]Divided in a crazy game [03:10.38]And Mary sent an angel down [03:13.27]Who wandered on through mallow town [03:16.38]And reached the great [03:18.50]Black water [03:22.33] [03:24.38]Lover's leap [03:30.87] [03:32.16]Together in endless peace [03:34.70]Forever in blissful sleep