Ada, my rarest bud from the valley Your of fire and skin of snow Have coursed me to the heights of the desert In of the cure for a rampant fever Your power, it plagues me now I come and the land for the desert flower
For beauty and perfume I'd my house and my lands The is sleeping in the river but the flower's in my hand With a paler and a broken petal, I'll paint the king and queen And to the goldsmith with my flower I'll buy your wedding
Tulip, one word I'd a-buy 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 clam I gave that man a for his daughter Ada Your heart is mine and it's mine 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 out the hollow canyon on our wedding day To me she gave her and to death do us part But the bird nest with one that she has promised her heart
Tulip, one word I'd a-buy The bed which our sons will rise And the window she cries Tulip, With one word I'd A net to catch the birds that fly from the where she cries
He reaches out and I Spilling the bribes from 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 sword is storming the hall my vision to no sight at all
I tied the tulip around her Like a red sinker And blindfold and around And round and To the banks of the and then walk My true love the rushing water And by her long hair, red Hair-pulled my there under until she drown
For beauty and perfume I'd my house and my lands My is sleeping in the river but the flower's in my hand With a paler leaf and a petal keep her all to me And to the with my flower I'll hear my true sing
Your water is still in my Ready to Water, water oh my kin me out This Eine river is mercy at Die as she for waiting with a dove's nest 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 veil that o'er my bride And the blue from the eye