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Date of issue: 19.05.2020
Song language: English
The Wind Weeps Eleanor |
There’s a land of fog and shadow way down below |
Where every door is sinking 'neath cold white snow |
And the lake is frozen over, nothing never grows |
Where the wind weeps Eleanor, 'tis there I go |
I stole a Foster rifle and a fist of shells |
Fashioned me a snowshoe when the wagons fell |
Then drank a fit of courage down the broken path to Hell |
Where the wind weeps Eleanor, 'tis there I go |
The belly of the mountain is cruel and long |
With a banjo on my shoulder, I carried on |
To beseech the Devil’s mercy with a mortal song |
Where the wind weeps Eleanor, 'tis there I go |
I found him in a cabin at the serpent’s tail |
Where brides of lovesick travelers fill a winter jail |
There I sang my words so sweetly that the Devil did wail |
Where the wind weeps Eleanor, 'tis there I go |
«Look not behind thee, laddie,» he bellowed twice |
«Look not behind thee, laddie, there be a price,» |
But I turned to bear her witness and she turned to ice |
Where the wind weeps Eleanor, 'tis there I go |
He broke her into pieces as he waved his claw |
She fell upon his kettle and began to thaw |
Not a devil there before me, but a man I saw |
Where the wind weeps Eleanor, 'tis there I go |
I carved a Foster bullet with the Mark of Cain |
I lifted up my rifle, but the Devil ran |
In the land that God abandoned, murder be my name |
Where the wind weeps Eleanor, 'tis there I go |
Where the wind weeps Eleanor, 'tis there I go |