Folk Song Lyrics

Folk Song lyrics

I've waited the night over

 For some word to come

 I asked the moon o'er the clover

 but the moon she is dumb

 

 You've made me a promise

 At midnight we'd go

 And that we should be married

 Sailing westward ho

 

 Such words you have spoken

 You have told me a lie

 That it could not be broken

 when you knew it must die

 

 There's no light in heaven

 That my heart can see

 That my heart be imprisioned

 While the devil go free

 Go free

 

 Like honey the ocean

 In the morning breeze

 Take my tears to the water

 That the rivers may freeze

 

 There's no light in heaven

 Can shine for me

 That my heart be imprisioned

 While the devil go free

 Go free

 

 What folly is beauty

 What trick of the skin

 Desire is fancy

 And ruin it's whim

 Your child within me

 And what should I do

 My blood fill with needles

 That he look like you

 

 There's no light in heaven

 That my heart can see

 That my heart be imprisioned

 While the devil go free

 My heart imprisioned

 While the devil go free

 No light in heaven

 No light for me