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rebekah rolland – the mulberry tree lyrics

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in wintery fields of silver sheen, there stands a mulberry tree
where me and my true love did lay
and he was all to me

late one night, one wintry night, a knockin’ at my door
his face was black and his eyes were white
i’d seen him there before

a face in shadow turned to me
“my darling, you must know; i am your dearest emory
returned from mexico”

then through the kitchen to the door, my husband standing by ”who’s this a knockin’ at this hour?
ain’t seen you here before//

he caught my eye then turned to him
“i fear i am mistaken
the one i loved and left behind
has since this place forsaken”

winter p-ssed, then come the spring, my husband said to me
“i’ve need of men and company
to break the ground for me”

“help from the boy from lexington, help from the miller’s son
and what of that boy emory?
has he but come and gone?”

so emory returned to me, but to my husband owing
and late at night when all would sleep
we’d lay so quietly

one night, a tappin’ on the gl-ss, the wind did toss and tear
my husband woke and then, alas
he did not find me there

he went into the darkened hall, in anger called to me
then through the kitchen, to the door, out to the fields went he
out to the fields went he

‘twas there he found me in the arms of this boy emory
but quietly turned back to home
and fell back into sleep

the next night, still as heaven come down, we stole out to the fields
and there, he watched for us to come
we fell there at his feet
lay still there at his feet

then through the field, into the woods
from there he stole to lincoln
and there they watched for him to come
he’d not return again

and where we lay in darkest night now stands a mulberry tree
when the light of heaven shines down on it
it burns red as can be, it burns red as can be

- rebekah rolland lyrics

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