Song Lyrics Unknown - Unquiet Grave    [Lyrics & Song Text Archive] lyrics archive>> U>> Unknown Singer Lyrics [Unknown other resources]>> Unquiet Grave Song Lyrics Author/Artist/Singer: Unknown Music Title/Track: Unquiet Grave Theme ID: 5804 Album: N/A THE UNQUIET GRAVE Cold blows the wind to my true love, And gently drops the rain. I've never had but one true love, And in green-wood he lies slain. I'll do as much for my true love, As any young girl may, I'll sit and mourn all on his grave, For twelve months and a day. And when twelve months and a day was passed, The ghost did rise and speak, "Why sittest thou all on my grave And will no let me sleep?" "Go fetch me water from the desert, And blood from out the stone, Go fetch me milk from a fair maid's breast That young man never has known." "My breast is cold as clay, My breath is earthly strong, And if you kiss my cold clay lips, You days they won't be long." "How oft on yonder grave, sweetheart, Where we were want to walk, The fairest flower that e'er I saw Has withered to a stalk." "When will we meet again, sweetheart, When will we meet again?" "When the autumn leaves that fall from the trees Are green and spring up again." Child #78 Aside from its exquisite poetry and music, this ballad is notable for its exhibition of the universal popular belief that excessive grief on the part of mourners disturbs the peace of the dead. Most of the verses of "The Unquiet Grave" can be found in other ballads and folk lyrics, suggesting the possibility that what we have here is only a fragment of a longer ballad still undiscovered. But in its few short verses, it presents a compelling and highly dramatic vignette of love, death, and grief. From "British Ballads and Folk Songs from the Joan Baez Songbook" sung by Joan Baez (5), Frankie Armstrong (Lovely on Water) Ian Campbell, and Patons @death @supernatural @love @ballad @ghost filename[ UNQUIGR1 play.exe UNQUIGRV DC ===DOCUMENT BOUNDARY Related Lyrics Random lyrics: Vandy Vandy, Vanuatu Anthem Text, Vanuatu Native Anthem Text, Vatican Rag, Vegetable, Ven a Jess!, Venezuela, Verdant Braes Of Skreen, Vermont Boys In Gardner, Very Unfortunate Man, Vicar And The Frog, Vicar Of Bray, Vicar Of Bray American, Victory Won At Richmond, Vietnam Anthem Text, View From Home, Villikins And His Dinah, Violate Me In The Violet Time, Violets Of Dawn, Virgin Sturgeon, Virgin Sturgeon 2, Viva Lamour, W B A, Wabash Cannonball, Wagoners Lad, Wait For The Tide, Wait Till The Sun Shines Nellie, Wake Island, Wake Nicodemus, Wal I Swan Git Up Napoleon, Wales Anthem Text, Walk In Jerusalem, Walk In The Light, Walk On By Wait On The Corner, Walkin On My Wheels, Walking A Bulldog, Wall of Silence, Walls And Windows, Walls Have Ears, Waltzing Matilda, Waltzing With Bears, Waly Waly, Waly Waly Jamie Douglas, Wandering Angus, War Begets Poverty, War Song, Wars Of Germany, Waste Not Want Not, Water Is Wide, Waterbound, Other Unknown song Lyrics 99 Bottles of Beer on the Wall Lyrics A Bird in a Gilded Cage Lyrics A Fenian Song Lyrics A Fool Such As I Lyrics A Friend Like You Lyrics A Hero of the Wrong War Lyrics A Horse Named Bill Lyrics A Hundred Years from Now Lyrics A Kangaroo Sat on an Oak Lyrics A Little Bit of Solitude Lyrics A Living Wage Lyrics ...Show All Other Artists Unknown Prophets Lyrics Unleashed Lyrics Unleashed Power Lyrics Unlimited Nation Lyrics Unlimited Sound Lyrics UNLOCO Lyrics Unlord Lyrics UNLV Lyrics Unni Wilhelmsen Lyrics Uno Svenningsson Lyrics All lyrics are property and copyright of their owners and are strictly for educational purposes only. lyricstrue.net Copyright © 2005-2007 All Rights Reserved., , Privacy policy