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