(anna mccarrigle)
There where no cuckoosno sycamores
We played about the forest floor
Underneath the silver maplesthe balsams and the sky
We popped the heads off dandelions
Assuming roles from nursery rhymes
Rested on the riverbank
And grew up by and byand grew up by and by
Frail my heart apart
And play me a little shady grove
Ring the bells of rhymney
Till they ring inside my head forever
Bounce the bowrock the gallows
For the hangman’s reel
And wake the devil from his dream
I’m going back to harlan
I’m going back to harlan
I’m going back to harlan
And if you were willie moore
And I was barbara allen
Or fair ellen all sad at the cabin door
A-weepin’ and a-pinin’for love
A-weepin’ and a-pinin’for love