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Cold Blows The Wind Lyrics
Cold blows the wind over my true love
Cold blows the drops of rain
I never had but one true love
And in Camville he was slain
I'll do as much for my true love as any young girl may
I'll sit and weep down by his grave for twelve month and one day
But when twelve months were come and gone
This young man he arose
What makes you weep down by my grave
I can't take my repose
One kiss, one kiss of your lily white lips -- one kiss is all I crave
One kiss, one kiss of your lily white lips and return back to your grave
My lips they are as cold as my clay
My breath is heavy and strong
If thou was to kiss my lily white lips
Thy days would not be long
Oh don't you remember the garden grove where we used to walk
Pluck the finest flower of them all, twill wither to a stalk
Go fetch me a nun from the dungeon deep
And water from a stone
And white milk from a maiden's breast,
That babe ere never known
Go dig me a grave both long, wide and deep as quickly as you may
I'll lie down in it and take one sleep for twelve month and one day
Cold blows the wind over my true love
Cold blows the drops of rain
I never had but one true love
And in Camville he was slain
I'll do as much for my true love as any young girl may
I'll sit and weep down by his grave for twelve month and one day
Cold blows the drops of rain
I never had but one true love
And in Camville he was slain
I'll sit and weep down by his grave for twelve month and one day
This young man he arose
What makes you weep down by my grave
I can't take my repose
One kiss, one kiss of your lily white lips and return back to your grave
My breath is heavy and strong
If thou was to kiss my lily white lips
Thy days would not be long
Pluck the finest flower of them all, twill wither to a stalk
And water from a stone
And white milk from a maiden's breast,
That babe ere never known
I'll lie down in it and take one sleep for twelve month and one day
Cold blows the drops of rain
I never had but one true love
And in Camville he was slain
I'll sit and weep down by his grave for twelve month and one day
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Actually, this is The Unquiet Grave is a bit different:
The wind that blows today my love a few small drops of rain Never have I had but one true love in cold place she is laid
I'll do as much for my true love as any young man may I'll sit and mourne all on her grave at twelve month and a day
The twelve month and the day been gone a voice spoke from the deep who is it sits all on my grave and will not let me sleep
It's I, it is I thine own true love who sits upon your grave for I crave one kiss from your sweet lips and that is all I see
You crave one kiss from my clay cold lips but my breath is earthy strong had you one kiss from my clay cold lips your time would not be long
My time be long my time be short tommorrow or today may god in heaven have all my soul but I'll kiss your lips of clay
See down beyond the garden green laught where we used to walk the sweetest flower that ever grew is whitered to the stork
The stork is whitered dry my love so will our hearts decay so make yourself content my love till death calls you away
in how many ways can you say 'scarborough fair'?
Just to correct/contradict the 'traditional Chinese spiritual' myth perpetuated all over the internet, 'Cold Blows The Wind' is a (probably late-medieval) English folk tune. There are printed lyrics in the Oxford university Bodleyan library as far back as 1435. It was collected in F. J. Child's 1886 compendium of English and Scottish folk ballads as 'The Unquiet Grave'. Versions aside from Ween's have been recorded by Anne Briggs, Joan Baez, Papa M and others.
this is an absolutely great song... I'm really glad the boys turned it into the song they did. The unquiet grave... the notion that a lover mourns so much for a slain love they disturb the peace(repose) of the deceased... its something everyone ought to hear.
i'm not sure how much credence to give the 'chinese traditional song' description (probably none). but i'm pretty sure that in the liner notes of 'the mollusk' the song is descibed as such. one more instance of the boys pissing about?
According to "All Request Live" this song is "about a dead bitch". Straight from Deaner's mouth.
Yeah, in the sleeve notes of the Mollusk, it's credited as a "Chinese Spiritual". But it is indeed a British folk song, and you can hear many versions of it on the folk circuit over here. Not sure why Ween have credited it the way they have.
The Unquiet Grave
For some reason I always thought it was about heroin relapse. "One kiss, one kiss of your lily white lips -- one kiss is all I crave One kiss, one kiss of your lily white lips and return back to your grave"
This song actually has a lot going on. The corpse isn't happy about being woken and gets sassy with the girl and tells her their love is dead in the twill wither to a stalk bit. He then asks her to do 4 impossible tasks. The 4th is dig a grave BOTH long wide and deep (three things). The ween brothers leave the ending open as to weather or not she did them.