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Sad voices they're calling
Our precious girl she can't be gone
How bitter this morning
When daddy's darling
Went out and started her day
Wasn't there a dream last night
Like a spring never ending
Still the water runs clear
Through my mind
On the field I can see a fiddler
The fiddler on the green and the sad boy
I took him too early
Would you mind
Would you mind
Would you mind
If I take you
To be with you
To be with you
To be with you
To be with you
The sun seemed bright
The air was clear
The air was clear
A trick of light
Turned red into green
She saw the light
Her face was pale
Her body smashed
Her beauty's gone
Isn't it a shame
The reaper said
He is quite alone here
And still waiting for you
Oh I really did fail for the first time
Spoke the fiddler, poor old fiddler
The fiddler on the green
The fiddler on the green
It would be niceâ?¦
Take my hand
Just hold my hand
I'll take you there
Your pain will go away
Our precious girl she can't be gone
How bitter this morning
When daddy's darling
Went out and started her day
Wasn't there a dream last night
Like a spring never ending
Still the water runs clear
Through my mind
On the field I can see a fiddler
The fiddler on the green and the sad boy
I took him too early
Would you mind
Would you mind
Would you mind
If I take you
To be with you
To be with you
To be with you
To be with you
The sun seemed bright
The air was clear
The air was clear
A trick of light
Turned red into green
She saw the light
Her face was pale
Her body smashed
Her beauty's gone
Isn't it a shame
The reaper said
He is quite alone here
And still waiting for you
Oh I really did fail for the first time
Spoke the fiddler, poor old fiddler
The fiddler on the green
The fiddler on the green
It would be niceâ?¦
Take my hand
Just hold my hand
I'll take you there
Your pain will go away
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The fiddler has nothing to do with the reaper, nothing. Fiddler's green is old fisherman's folklore of heaven. Its been carried down for generations and thus has expanded beyond just fishing folklore. The fiddler is the greeter of heaven(the green), and despite how long he's been doing this the death of a child, the seperation of child from parent is still a saddening experience for him. The rest of the song is just simply singing about death. So I mean if you really wanted to simplify it, the song is about Saint Peter, there I said it.
The album art would like to have a word with you. Clearly Death is on a field playing a fiddle to two small children sitting around a fire. Whether or not "the Fiddler's Green" has anything to do with Death is irrelevant; the song is about Death taking a boy before his time. St. Peter, in Christian mythology, is not the figure that takes souls. He is there to let them in.