Ada, my bud from the desert valley Your hair of fire and of snow coursed me to the heights of the desert mountains In search of the cure for a fever Your beauty's power, it me now I come and scour the land for the flower
For beauty and I'd stake my house and my lands The gold is sleeping in the but the flower's in my hand a paler leaf and a broken petal, I'll paint the king and queen 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 seaside Tulip, one word I'd a-buy The finest man can buy And a pearl for to pay my
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 Your heart is mine and it's 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 bells spilled out the canyon on our wedding day To me she gave her hand and to do us part But the bird nest with one that she has promised her heart
Tulip, With one I'd a-buy The bed from which our sons will And the where she cries Tulip, With one I'd a-buy A net to the birds that fly from the window where she cries
He reaches out and I Spilling the flowering bribes his paw The broken petals climbing the my oxygen, no air at all From the bed I him call But I answer when the night falls The cotton sword is the hall Cutting my vision to no at all
I tied the tulip around her a red lead sinker And and spin around And round and To the banks of the and then walk My true love into the water And by her hair, bleeding red my love there under until she drown
For beauty and I'd stake my house and my lands My love is sleeping in the river but the in my hand a paler leaf and a broken petal I'll her all to me And to the river with my I'll hear my love sing
Your water is still in my to drown Water, oh water my kin me out This Eine river is mercy at Die as she for waiting with a dove's nest My true
Tulip, one word I'd a-buy A veil that o'er 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 from the eye