Ada, my rarest bud from the valley Your hair of and skin of snow Have coursed me to the 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 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 and queen And to the with my flower I'll buy your wedding ring
Tulip, one word I'd a-buy Oxen, and wheat 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 with my bowl to her father's garden Like gold for lamb or wool for clam I gave man a bowl for his daughter Ada Your is mine and it's mine forever And she replied, "my fate that on yon horizon's tethered me to the sky"
The arranged, and vows exchanged and the dove flew away The bells spilled out the hollow canyon on our day To me she gave her hand and to death do us But the bird will with one that she has promised her heart
Tulip, one word I'd a-buy The bed which our sons will rise And the where she cries Tulip, With one I'd a-buy A net to catch the that fly from the window where she cries
He out and I withdraw the flowering bribes from his paw The broken climbing the walls my oxygen, no air at all From the bed I him call But I answer cooing when the night The sword is storming the hall my vision to no sight at all
I tied the tulip around her Like a red lead And blindfold and around And and round To the banks of the and then walk My true love into the water And by her long hair, red Hair-pulled my love under until she drown
For and perfume I'd stake my house and my lands My is sleeping in the river but the flower's in my hand With a leaf and a broken petal keep her all to me And to the river with my I'll hear my love sing
water is still 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 true
Tulip, With one word I'd A veil parted o'er my bride And the as my true love died Tulip, With one word I'd A veil parted o'er my bride And the from the bluest eye