Angelo Branduardi The Stolen Bride Lyrics

The Stolen Bride Lyrics

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ANGELO BRANDUARDI
"fables and
fantasies"

The Stolen Bride

Three long nights and sleep
eludes me
Wait and watch and listen
But all I hear is the viper
sliding
And hissing along the river
There I wrote this song I sing
now
Darkly dressed with sorrow
About the bride who left her
wedding
Slipped out...none saw none followed.
No one saw the extra
guest
Beguile her to the threshold
With smiles and pretty words about the
beauty of her dress
And persuade her from the feasting
So naive she
followed him
She thought but for a moment
We waited her return till the
candles burnt away
We searched...but none could find her

A fiddler
present at the wedding
Was walking out next morning
When the strange
guest appeared before him
Good day musician said he
I know you search for
one who's missing
Vanished from her wedding
If you have a brave heart walk
behind me
And I will lead you to her
A boat as black as fishes
bowels
He rode 'cross shrowded waters
Untill they came upon the waxen
bride
In a dress of gold and silver

She bade the fiddler take her
ring
Back safe to her beloved
And said here I remain and suffer not the
world
No pain desire or hatred
The fiddler took the ring and
turning
Had hardly walked but one step
When he heard a stiffled cry
"Forgive me"
As the misty waters took her
Shining bright as
summer light 
The morning that she married
What unholy place was she
taken to that day
And by what cold of darkness.