The Cruel Sister Lyrics

Song	The Cruel Sister
Artist	Old Blind Dogs
Album	Close to the Bone
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	作词 : Traditional
	There lived a lady by the North Sea shore
	(Lay the bent to the bonnie broom)
	Two daughters were the babes she bore
	(Fa la la la la la la la la la)

	alternating with each of the lines below>

	As one grew bright as is the sun,
	So coal black grew the elder one.

	A knight came riding to the lady's door,
	He'd travelled far to be their wooer.

	He courted one with gloves and rings,
	But he loved the other above all things.

	Oh sister will you go with me
	To watch the ships sail on the sea?

	She took her sister by the hand
	And led her down to the North Sea strand.

	And as they stood on the windy shore
	The dark girl threw her sister o'er.

	Sometimes she sank, sometimes she swam,
	Crying, "Sister, reach to me your hand!

	"Oh Sister, Sister, let me live,
	And all that's mine I'll surely give."

	"(It's) your own true love that I'll have and more,
	But thou shalt never come ashore."

	And there she floated like a swan,
	The salt sea bore her body on.

	Two minstrels walked along the strand
	And saw the maiden float to land.

	They made a harp of her breastbone,
	Whose sound would melt a heart of stone.

	They took three locks of her yellow hair,
	And with them strung the harp so rare.

	They went into her father's hall
	To play the harp before them all,

	But when they laid it on a stone
	The harp began to play alone.

	The first string sang a doleful sound:
	"The bride her younger sister drowned."

	The second string as that they tried,
	In terror sits the black-haired bride.

	The third string sang beneath their bow,
	"And surely now her tears will flow

	zuo ci : Traditional
	There lived a lady by the North Sea shore
	Lay the bent to the bonnie broom
	Two daughters were the babes she bore
	Fa la la la la la la la la la

	alternating with each of the lines below

	As one grew bright as is the sun,
	So coal black grew the elder one.

	A knight came riding to the lady' s door,
	He' d travelled far to be their wooer.

	He courted one with gloves and rings,
	But he loved the other above all things.

	Oh sister will you go with me
	To watch the ships sail on the sea?

	She took her sister by the hand
	And led her down to the North Sea strand.

	And as they stood on the windy shore
	The dark girl threw her sister o' er.

	Sometimes she sank, sometimes she swam,
	Crying, " Sister, reach to me your hand!

	" Oh Sister, Sister, let me live,
	And all that' s mine I' ll surely give."

	" It' s your own true love that I' ll have and more,
	But thou shalt never come ashore."

	And there she floated like a swan,
	The salt sea bore her body on.

	Two minstrels walked along the strand
	And saw the maiden float to land.

	They made a harp of her breastbone,
	Whose sound would melt a heart of stone.

	They took three locks of her yellow hair,
	And with them strung the harp so rare.

	They went into her father' s hall
	To play the harp before them all,

	But when they laid it on a stone
	The harp began to play alone.

	The first string sang a doleful sound:
	" The bride her younger sister drowned."

	The second string as that they tried,
	In terror sits the blackhaired bride.

	The third string sang beneath their bow,
	" And surely now her tears will flow

	zuò cí : Traditional
	There lived a lady by the North Sea shore
	Lay the bent to the bonnie broom
	Two daughters were the babes she bore
	Fa la la la la la la la la la

	alternating with each of the lines below

	As one grew bright as is the sun,
	So coal black grew the elder one.

	A knight came riding to the lady' s door,
	He' d travelled far to be their wooer.

	He courted one with gloves and rings,
	But he loved the other above all things.

	Oh sister will you go with me
	To watch the ships sail on the sea?

	She took her sister by the hand
	And led her down to the North Sea strand.

	And as they stood on the windy shore
	The dark girl threw her sister o' er.

	Sometimes she sank, sometimes she swam,
	Crying, " Sister, reach to me your hand!

	" Oh Sister, Sister, let me live,
	And all that' s mine I' ll surely give."

	" It' s your own true love that I' ll have and more,
	But thou shalt never come ashore."

	And there she floated like a swan,
	The salt sea bore her body on.

	Two minstrels walked along the strand
	And saw the maiden float to land.

	They made a harp of her breastbone,
	Whose sound would melt a heart of stone.

	They took three locks of her yellow hair,
	And with them strung the harp so rare.

	They went into her father' s hall
	To play the harp before them all,

	But when they laid it on a stone
	The harp began to play alone.

	The first string sang a doleful sound:
	" The bride her younger sister drowned."

	The second string as that they tried,
	In terror sits the blackhaired bride.

	The third string sang beneath their bow,
	" And surely now her tears will flow

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