Melora Songtext

von Buffy Sainte-Marie

[Refrain]
Come all you fair and tender girls
Who flourish in your prime, prime
Beware, beware, on your guard take care
Let no man steal your time, time
Let no man steal your time

For when your time is past and gone
He'll care no more for you
And every day that your garden lays waste
You'll cover all over with rue, rue
You'll cover all over with rue

A woman is a branched tree
A man's a singing wind, wind
And from her branches carelessly
He'll take what he can find, find
He'll take what he can find

[Refrain]

Love came by with the river-smoke
When the leaves were green on the trees
But I'd cut my heart on the black drag oak
Before they fell on me

Leaves are green in the early spring
Brown as mendy now
I did'n ask for a wedding ring
From the wind and the bending bow

Good girls sleep in their modesty
Bad girls sleep in their shame
I'm asleep in a hollow oak
For my child can have a name

It's cold, it's cold an it's cold again
It's cold on the blackjack limb
With a little bird for his hungry man
And the wind strook this over him

He's gonna act like a hound that host
When he comes to the blackjack tree
An he's gonna walk in the proud proud shores
All over Tennessee