Alasdair Roberts - Farewell Sorrow

Down Where the Willow Wands Weep

I took my only young son and my only daughter
Down where the willow wands weep into the water
And Walter, my young son, he reached up and caught her
When away like a seedling, a gentle wind brought her

I had a daughter and a son
But in the undergrowth I lost them
For I am made of blood and bone
And they are made of bud and blossom

And all the sorrows of their sires
Their sinning and wrongdoing cost me
Upon the thorny, thorny briars
May the wild water toss me

And so I'll leave my native land
Clad in birch and rhododendron
In Caerleon, Albion, and Man
May river flow and ever wend on

May river flow and ever wend on



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Writer(s): Alasdair Roberts
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Other Album Tracks

  1. Farewell Sorrow
  2. Join Our Lusty Chorus
  3. Carousing
  4. I Fell In Love
  5. I Went Hunting
  6. Down Where the Willow Wands Weep
  7. When a Man's In Love He Feels No Cold
  8. Come, My Darling Polly
  9. The Whole House Is Singing
  10. I Walked Abroad in an Evil Hour

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Altri album

  1. Grief in the Kitchen and Mirth in the Hall
  2. The Bonny Moorhen
  3. The Lichtbob's Lassie
  4. Eppie Morrie
  5. Fretted and Indebted
  6. Hello Sorrow / Hello Joy
  7. The Songs of My Boyhood
  8. The Fiery Margin
  9. Pangs
  10. Alasdair Roberts

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