Nightingale Song

Nightingale Song

I was a young and happy lass

Who roamed the hill and dale

And at the dawn i'd sit And sing

With a lonesome nightingale

Will o will o will I be

Free to nest

In the green oak tree

Will o will o will I fly

High above

In the open sky

In winter I was found outside

There singing on the hill

By a lord of great and Ill renown

Who asked me call him will

Up and on his steed we rode,

And trapped within his hand

He brought me to his castle walls

To sing at his demand

Chorus

All winter long he brought me out

To sing for any bread

And silence met so cold and harsh

A palm held overhead

My heart broke soft my skin marked firm

I longed for silence sake

But locked inside a cage of stone

My voice, it would not break.

Chorus

And in the spring the nightingale

Found Nest up on the hill

And lifted up his voice in song

But soon the air went still

Where was the lass who used to sing

He asked the Fox and hare

They said where she had winter slept

Her song clear in the air

Chorus

You will o will you will o will

Came nightingales reply

He grabbed a rope full forty feet

And flew up to her side

He waited on the earth below

And watched her climb by hand

The lord's voice called if I cannot

Have you then no one can.”

Chorus

She fell into the open air

He cut the rope she grasp

before she reached the ground below

Arms caught her safe and fast

Where once a nightingale had stood

Now stood a fair young man

They fled together from the keep

And to the wooded land.

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Now when you walk along the hill

At first light in the dawn

Sometimes you'll hear two voices raise

In nightingale's song