Ada, my bud from the desert valley Your hair of fire and skin of Have me to the heights of the desert mountains In search of the cure for a fever beauty's power, it plagues me now I come and the land for the desert flower
For beauty and perfume I'd stake my house and my The gold is sleeping in the river but the flower's in my With a paler and a broken petal, I'll paint the king and queen And to the with my flower I'll buy your wedding ring
Tulip, With one word I'd Oxen, and wheat and rye Land on the north Tulip, one word I'd a-buy The finest man can buy And a for to pay my bride
Then with my bowl to her father's garden Like gold for lamb or for clam I gave that man a bowl for his daughter Ada Your heart is mine and mine forever And she replied, "my fate that lies on yon horizon's me to the sky"
The match arranged, and vows exchanged and the dove flew The spilled out the hollow canyon on our wedding day To me she gave her and to death do us part But the bird will with one that she has promised her heart
Tulip, one word I'd a-buy The bed from which our sons will And the where she cries Tulip, one word I'd a-buy A net to catch the birds fly from the window where she cries
He out and I withdraw Spilling the flowering from his paw The broken climbing the walls my oxygen, no air at all From the bed I hear him But I answer cooing when the night The cotton is storming the hall Cutting my to no sight at all
I tied the tulip her neck Like a red lead And blindfold and around And round and To the of the river and then walk My true love into the rushing And by her long hair, red Hair-pulled my love there until she drown
For beauty and perfume I'd stake my house and my My love is in the river but the flower's in my hand With a leaf and a broken petal I'll her all to me And to the river my flower I'll hear my love sing
Your water is in my friend Ready to Water, oh water my kin me out This Eine river is at last Die as she for waiting with a dove's nest My love
Tulip, one word I'd a-buy A veil that parted my bride And the breath as my true died Tulip, one word I'd a-buy A veil that parted my bride And the blue the bluest eye