Tulip

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Ada, my rarest bud from the desert valley Your hair of fire and skin of snow Have coursed me to the heights of the desert mountains In search of the cure for a rampant fever Your beauty's power, it plagues me now I come and scour the land for the desert flower

For beauty and perfume I'd stake my house and my lands The gold is sleeping in the river but the flower's in my hand With a paler leaf and a broken petal, I'll paint the king and queen And to the goldsmith with my flower I'll buy your wedding ring

Tulip, tulip With one word I'd a-buy Oxen, sheep and wheat and rye Land on the north seaside Tulip, tulip With one word I'd a-buy The finest dresses man can buy And a pearl for to pay my bride

Then with my rarest bowl to her father's garden Like gold for lamb or wool for clam I gave that man a bowl for his daughter Ada Your heart is mine and it's mine forever And she replied, "my fate that lies on yon horizon's tethered me to the sky"

The match arranged, and vows exchanged and the dove flew away The bells spilled out the hollow canyon on our wedding day To me she gave her hand and to death do us part But the bird will nest with one that she has promised her heart

Tulip, tulip With one word I'd a-buy The bed from which our sons will rise And the window where she cries Tulip, tulip With one word I'd a-buy A net to catch the birds that fly from the window where she cries

He reaches out and I withdraw Spilling the flowering bribes from his paw The broken petals climbing the walls Stealing my oxygen, no air at all From the bed I hear him call But I answer cooing when the night falls The cotton sword is storming the hall Cutting my vision to no sight at all

I tied the tulip around her neck Like a red lead sinker And blindfold and spin around And round and round To the banks of the river and then walk My true love into the rushing water And by her long hair, bleeding red Hair-pulled my love there under until she drown

For beauty and perfume I'd stake my house and my lands My love is sleeping in the river but the flower's in my hand With a paler leaf and a broken petal I'll keep her all to me And to the river with my flower I'll hear my true love sing

Your water is still in my friend Ready to drown Water, water oh water my kin Carry me out This Eine river is mercy at last Die as she laughs for He's waiting with a dove's nest My true love

Tulip, tulip With one word I'd a-buy A veil that parted o'er my bride And the breath as my true love died Tulip, tulip With one word I'd a-buy A veil that parted o'er my bride And the blue from the bluest eye