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lord douglas - moonaroon lyrics

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‘awake, awake, arise, you seven sleepers
so long before the day
for lord douglas comes all in your lady’s chamber
to steal his love away.’

‘put on, put on the gold and chains of silver
don’t let your father know
that i will take in hand his youngest daughter
and to the hills we’ll go.’

but there was one in the lady’s house
who heard what they did say
he rang the bells, so loud and shrill
so long before the day

‘awake, awake arise! you seven brothers
put on your armour bright
for lord douglas comes all in your lady’s chamber
to steal his love by night.’

they had not rode by few short miles together
across the wooded green
‘well light down, light down,’ he said, ‘my own true lover
for dawn is coming in.’

‘i think i hear your father’s steed
his shoes upon the ground
and i would wager that it won’t
be long ‘til we are found.’
‘but i have run from all that was before me
and put my house to shame
so, fear the curse my mother placed upon me
and dare not speak my name.’

‘light down, light down!’ he says, ‘my own true lover
and hold my steed to stand!
while i do go and fight your seven brothers
and your father just at hand!’

so well she stood hand held his horse in harness
she never shed a tear
until his keening blade took seven brothers
and the father she held so dear

‘hold your hand, my love’, she says
‘your strokes are wondrous all
for sweethearts i will have again
but fathers i’ll get no more!’

‘hold off! hold off, lord douglas!’
she calls towards him
she calls him by his name
‘for all the blood that you have shed in anger
love runs in every vein.’
‘oh you must choose, oh choose, then lady margaret
if you do stay or bide.’
‘well i must go with you into the green wood
since you have left no guide.’

he placed her on the saddle seat beside him
his sword hung to the ground
and how his wounds did tremble and did quaver
and soaked his shirt with blood

‘lie down and rest, my love,’ she says
‘i fear that you are slain
your body trembles to the touch
there’s not much life within.’

lord douglas died so long before the morning
his love she died the ‘morrow
lord douglas died of the wounds her father gave him
his lady died of sorrow

she was buried in the yard
and he was buried by her
and out her heart there grew a rose
and out of his, a briar

the briar and the rose grew up together
‘til they could grow no higher
and there they twined a true love’s knot together
for all love to admire

- moonaroon lyrics

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