Ada, my rarest bud from the desert Your hair of and skin of snow Have coursed me to the heights of the mountains In of the cure for a rampant fever beauty's power, it plagues me now I and scour the land for the desert flower
For beauty and perfume I'd stake my and my lands The gold is in the river but the flower's in my hand With a paler leaf and a broken petal, I'll the king and queen And to the goldsmith with my flower I'll buy your 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 pearl for to pay my
Then with my rarest to her father's garden Like 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 lies on yon horizon's tethered me to the sky"
The match arranged, and exchanged and the dove flew away The spilled out the hollow canyon on our wedding day To me she gave her hand and to death do us But the bird nest 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, 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 flowering bribes his paw The broken climbing the walls my oxygen, no air at all From the bed I hear him But I answer when the night falls The cotton sword is the hall my vision to no sight at all
I the tulip around her neck Like a red sinker And and spin around And round and To the banks of the river and then My true love into the rushing And by her long hair, red Hair-pulled my love under until she drown
For beauty and I'd stake my house and my lands My love is sleeping in the river but the flower's in my With a leaf and a broken petal I'll her all to me And to the river my flower I'll my true love sing
Your is still in my friend to drown Water, water oh my kin me out This Eine river is mercy at 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 as my true love died Tulip, With one I'd a-buy A that parted o'er my bride And the blue from the eye