Where true lovers meet beneath the green bower
Where true lovers meet underneath the green tree
And Mary, fond [?] Mary, she says unto her true love
You have stolen my young heart by the Banks Of The Lee»
[chorus]
For I love her very dearly, most truly and sincerely
There’s no-one in this wild world that I love more than she
Every bush and every bower, every wild Irish flower
Reminds me of my Mary by the Banks Of The Lee.
Don’t stay out too late love, on the moorlands my Mary
Don’t stay out too late love, on the moorlands for me
For it’s little was my notion, as we parted by the ocean
That we’d be forever parting on the Banks Of The Lee
[chorus]
I will pull my love some roses, some wild Irish roses
I will pull my love some roses, the fairest to see
And I’ll lay them on the graveside of my own dear darling Mary
On that cold and silent grave where she sleeps beneath the tree
[chorus]
Silly Wizard does have a version of it, on «Kiss The Tears Away». The only
Other recording I know of is by Cordelia’s Dad, an Amherst, MA based band
That does American and British/Celtic trads to thrash/punk arrangements.
Great stuff— they also did «Scarborough Faire» and «Will The Circle Be
Unbroken».
