Lovely Willie-Cathie Ryan

[ti:Lovely Willie] [ar:Cathie Ryan] [al:The Music Of What Happens] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.00]Lovely Willie - Cathie Ryan [00:13.84]It happened one evening at the playing of ball [00:20.86]When first I met Willie, both proper and tall [00:27.68]He was neat, fair and handsome and straight in each limb [00:35.35]There’s a heart in my bosom lies breaking for him [00:42.78] [00:44.46]“Oh won’t you come with me a short piece of the road [00:51.40]To see my father’s dwelling and place of abode?” [00:58.63]He could tell by her looks and her languishing eye [01:06.66]That he was the young man she had cherished most high [01:14.74] [01:25.59]“There’s a spot in my father’s garden, lovely Willie,” said she [01:33.17]“Where lords, dukes, and earls there wait upon me [01:40.15]But when they are sleeping in a long and silent rest [01:47.16] [01:48.10]I’ll go with you, lovely Willie, you’re the boy I love best” [01:56.13] [01:57.01]Her father’d been listening, in ambush he lay [02:03.34] [02:03.98]To hear the fond words that these lovers did say [02:10.62]And with a sharp rapier he pierced her love through [02:18.21]And the innocent blood of her lover he drew [02:26.82] [03:18.44]The grave was got ready, lovely Willie laid in [03:25.28]The mass, it was chanted to clear his soul of sin [03:31.79]“You, honored father, you may say as you will [03:39.73]But the innocent blood of my love you did spill [03:47.25] [03:48.81]So I will go off to some far country [03:55.87]Where I will know no one, and no one know me [04:01.54] [04:03.04]There I will wander ’til I close my eyes in rest [04:10.84]For you, lovely Willie, you’re the boy I love best”