Mary of the Wild Moor-The Blue Sky Boys

[ti:Mary of the Wild Moor] [ar:The Blue Sky Boys] [al:On Radio - Volume 4] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.00]Mary of the Wild Moor - The Blue Sky Boys [00:15.23]It was on one cold winter night [00:19.50] [00:20.34]When the wind blew across the wild moor [00:24.48] [00:25.27]At Mary came wandering home with a child [00:30.62]Till she came to her own father's door [00:34.69] [00:35.87]"Father dear father " she cried [00:40.71]"Come down and open the door [00:44.45] [00:45.56]Or the child in my arms with perish and die [00:50.59]From the winds that blow 'cross the wild moor [00:54.30] [01:05.43]Oh why did I leave this fair spot [01:09.31] [01:10.30]Where once I was happy and free [01:14.17] [01:14.98]I am now doomed to roam [01:17.49]Without friends or a home [01:20.14]And noone to take pity on me [01:24.05] [01:24.85]But her father was deaf to her cry [01:28.88] [01:29.83]Not a sound of a voice did he hear [01:34.17] [01:34.77]So the watchdog did howl [01:37.08]And the village bells tolled [01:39.61]And the wind blew across the wild moor [01:43.47] [01:44.48]Oh how the old man must have felt [01:48.41] [01:49.00]When he came to the door the next morn [01:52.87] [01:53.94]And he found Mary dead but the child still alive [01:58.81]Closely clasped in its dead mother's arms [02:02.59] [02:03.59]In anguish he tore his gray hair [02:07.73] [02:08.25]And the tears down his cheeks they did pour [02:12.21] [02:12.78]When he saw how that night [02:15.27]She had perished and died [02:17.90]From the winds that blow 'cross the wild moor [02:21.76] [02:32.61]The old man with grief pined away [02:36.42] [02:37.49]An' the child to its mother went soon [02:41.06] [02:42.24]And no one they say has there to lived this day [02:47.07]And the cottage to ruin has fallen [02:51.05] [02:52.04]But the villagers point out the spot [02:56.19] [02:56.70]Where the willows droop over the door [03:00.45] [03:01.44]Saying there Mary died once the gay village bride [03:06.16]From the winds that blow 'cross the wild moor