Cave Nick The Sorrowful Wife Lyrics

The Sorrowful Wife Lyrics

I married my wife on the day of the eclipse

 Our friends awarded her courage with gifts

 Now as the nights grow longer and the season shifts

 I look to my sorrowful wife

 Who is quietly tending her flowers

 Who is quietly tending her .....

 

 

 The water is high on the beckoning river

 I made her a promise I could not deliver

 And the cry of the birds sends a terrible shiver

 Through me and my sorrowful wife

 Who is shifting the furniture around

 Who is shifting the furniture around

 

 

 Now we sit beneath the knotted Yew

 And the bluebells bob around our shoes

 The task of remembering the telltale clues

 Goes to my lovely, my sorrowful wife

 Who is counting the days on her fingers

 

 

 Who is counting the days on her .....

 Come on and help me babe

 Come on now

 Help me babe

 I was blind

 The grass here grows long and high

 Twists right up to the sky

 White clouds roll on by

 Come on now and help me babe

 I was blind

 I was a fool babe

 I was blind

 Come on now

 A loose wind last night blew down

 Black trees bent to the ground

 Their blossoms made such a sound

 That I could not hear myself think babe

 Come on now

 And help me babe

 Help me now

 I was blind

 I was a fool