Ada, my bud from the desert valley Your hair of and skin of snow Have coursed me to the heights of the mountains In search of the cure for a rampant Your power, it plagues me now I come and scour the for the desert flower
For and perfume I'd stake my house and my lands The gold is in the river 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 flower buy your wedding ring
Tulip, one word I'd a-buy Oxen, and wheat and rye Land on the seaside Tulip, With one word I'd The dresses man can buy And a for to pay my bride
Then with my bowl to her father's garden gold for lamb or wool for clam I gave that man a bowl for his daughter Ada Your 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 vows exchanged and the flew away The bells spilled out the 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, With one word I'd The bed from our sons will rise And the where she cries Tulip, one word I'd a-buy A net to catch the birds that fly from the window where she
He out and I withdraw Spilling the flowering bribes 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 falls The cotton is storming the hall my vision to no sight at all
I tied the tulip around her Like a red sinker And blindfold and spin And round and To the of the river and then walk My true love into the rushing And by her hair, bleeding red Hair-pulled my love under until she drown
For beauty and perfume I'd stake my 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 He's waiting with a nest My love
Tulip, one word I'd a-buy A veil parted o'er my bride And the breath as my love died Tulip, one word I'd a-buy A veil that parted my bride And the blue the bluest eye