歌手:Méav
专辑:《Silver Sea》

作曲 : Conor O'Reilly/Méav
[00:23]A mother lived by the North Sea shore
[00:26]Daughters were the babes she bore
[00:28]One grew radiant as the sun
[00:30]Darkly grew the elder one
[00:33]A knight came riding to their door
[00:36]He travelled far to be their wooer
[00:38]He courted both with gold and rings
[00:40]But loved the younger o'er all things
[00:47]"Sister, won't you walk with me“
[00:49]To watch the ships sail o'er the sea?"
[00:53]As they walked the rocky shore
[00:55]The dark one pushed her sister o'er
[00:58]"Sister, sister, let me live“
[01:00]All that's mine I'll surely give"
[01:02]"Thy bridegroom I will take and more“
[01:04]But thou shalt never come ashore"
[01:16]Off she floated like a swan
[01:18]The salt sea bore her body on
[01:21]You could not see her lily feet
[01:23]Her golden fringes were so deep
[01:26]A minstrel walking by the strand
[01:27]Saw her body float to land
[01:31]When he looked that lady on
[01:33]He sighed and made a heavy moan
[01:53]He made a harp of her breastbone
[01:56]Whose sound would melt a heart of stone
[01:59]Took the strands of her bright hair
[02:01]And with them strung his harp so rare
[02:13]He brought the harp to the wedding hall
[02:16]There to play before them all
[02:18]When they set it on a stone
[02:20]The harp began to play alone
[02:41]The strings sang out a dreadful sound
[02:44]"The bride her younger sister drowned“
[02:46]Now her secret you all know
[02:49]Her guilty tears will surely flow"