Sad Waters Lyrics

Sad Waters lyrics

Down the road I look and there runs Mary



 Hair of gold and lips like cherries



 We go down to the river where the willows weep



 Take a naked root for a lovers seat



 That rose out of the bitten soil



 But sound to the ground by creeping ivy coils



 O Mary you have seduced my soul



 And I don't know right from wrong



 Forever a hostage of your child's world



 



 



 And then I ran my tin-cup heart along



 The prison of her ribs



 And with a toss of her curls



 That little girl goes wading in



 Rollin her dress up past her knee



 Turning these waters into wine



 Then she platted all the willow vines



 



 



 Mary in the shallows laughing



 Over where the carp dart



 Spooked by the new shadows that she cast



 Across these sad waters and across my heart