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