Ada, my bud from the desert 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 Your beauty's power, it me now I come and scour the land for the desert
For and perfume I'd stake my house and my lands The gold is sleeping in the but the flower's in my hand With a paler leaf and a broken petal, paint the king and queen And to the goldsmith with my flower I'll buy wedding ring
Tulip, With one word I'd Oxen, sheep and and rye Land on the north Tulip, one word I'd a-buy The dresses man can buy And a pearl for to pay my
Then with my bowl to her father's garden Like gold for lamb or wool for I gave that man a bowl for his daughter Ada Your heart is mine and it's forever And she replied, "my that lies on yon horizon's tethered me to the sky"
The match arranged, and vows and the dove 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 nest with one that she has her heart
Tulip, one word I'd a-buy The bed from which our will rise And the where she cries Tulip, one word I'd a-buy A net to catch the birds that fly from the 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 hear him But I cooing when the night falls The cotton sword is storming the Cutting my vision to no at all
I tied the around her neck Like a red sinker And and spin around And round and To the banks of the river and walk My love into the rushing water And by her hair, bleeding red Hair-pulled my love there under she drown
For beauty and I'd stake my house and my lands My love is sleeping in the but the flower's in my hand With a paler and a broken petal I'll her all to me And to the river my flower 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 waiting with a dove's My true
Tulip, With one I'd a-buy A veil that o'er my bride And the as my true love died Tulip, one word I'd a-buy A that parted o'er my bride And the blue from the eye