Ada, my bud from the desert valley Your hair of fire and skin of Have coursed me to the heights of the desert In of the cure for a rampant fever Your beauty's power, it me now I come and scour the for the desert flower
For and perfume I'd stake 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 goldsmith with my I'll buy your wedding ring
Tulip, With one I'd a-buy Oxen, and wheat and rye on the north seaside Tulip, With one I'd a-buy The dresses man can buy And a pearl for to pay my
with my rarest bowl to her father's garden Like gold for lamb or for clam I gave that man a bowl for his daughter Ada Your heart is mine and mine forever And she replied, "my fate that lies on yon tethered me to the sky"
The match arranged, and vows exchanged and the flew away The bells spilled out the hollow canyon on our day To me she gave her hand and to do us part But the bird will nest with one that she has her heart
Tulip, With one I'd a-buy The bed from which our will rise And the where she cries Tulip, With one I'd a-buy A net to catch the birds that fly the window where she cries
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 hear him But I answer when the night falls The cotton is storming the hall my vision to no sight at all
I tied the around her neck Like a red lead And and spin around And and round To the of the river and then walk My true love into the water And by her long hair, red Hair-pulled my love there under she drown
For and perfume I'd stake my house and my lands My love is in the river but the flower's in my hand With a paler leaf and a petal I'll her all to me And to the river my flower I'll my true love sing
Your water is in my friend Ready to Water, oh water my kin me out This Eine is mercy at last Die as she for He's waiting 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 love died Tulip, With one I'd a-buy A veil that parted o'er my And the from the bluest eye