The Incest Song-Buffy Sainte-Marie

[ti:The Incest Song] [ar:Buffy Sainte-Marie] [al:It'S My Way] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.00]The Incest Song - Buffy Sainte-Marie [00:42.12]Word is up to the king's dear daughter [00:47.32] [00:48.49]And word is spreading all over the land [00:53.08] [00:53.79]That's she's been betrayed by her own dear brother [00:59.04] [00:59.61]That he has chosen another fair hand [01:04.32] [01:06.89]Many young man had a song of her beauty [01:11.29] [01:13.02]And many a grand deed for her had been done [01:17.88] [01:18.54]But within her sights she carried the child [01:24.01]Of her father's youngest fairest son [01:29.52] [01:31.26]Tell to me no lies [01:33.64] [01:34.16]Tell to me no stories [01:36.34] [01:37.84]But saddle my good horse and I'll go and see my own true love [01:45.55]If your words be true ones then that will mean the end of me [01:55.77] [01:56.32]Brother oh brother what lies be these ones [02:01.20] [02:02.21]They say your love to another I lose [02:07.84]There's a child within me of thy very own lineage [02:12.57] [02:13.13]And I know it's I that thou would chose [02:18.33] [02:20.26]And have you yet told your father or mother [02:25.02] [02:27.01]All that thou has told here to me [02:32.12]And he's taken off his good braided sword [02:37.26] [02:38.04]And I am down beside his knee [02:44.58]No I've not told no one but you my dear one [02:50.36] [02:51.26]For it's a secret between us two [02:56.07] [02:56.66]And I would come home and quit all my roaming [03:01.77]And spend my days only waiting on you [03:06.78] [03:08.87]Too late too late for change my sister [03:13.63] [03:15.63]My father has chosen another fair bride [03:20.41] [03:20.97]And he stabbed her easy and lovingly lay her [03:26.23] [03:27.31]Down in her grave by the green wood side [03:32.17] [03:32.72]And when he's come home to his own wedding of feasting [03:37.87] [03:39.61]And his father asks why he's weeping all so [03:45.30]He says such a bride as a I've seen on this morning [03:50.92] [03:51.94]Never another man shall know