Song information On this page you can find the lyrics of the song Lily of the Valley, artist - Judy Collins. Album song Both Sides Now - The Very Best Of, in the genre Музыка мира
Date of issue: 03.11.2014
Record label: Cleopatra, Wildflower
Song language: English
Lily of the Valley |
Lily of the valley |
Lily of the valley |
Lily of the valley |
They called her 'Lily of the valley' |
And she lived beside the river |
The youngest of her sisters |
And the prettiest of them all |
She was courted by the men in town |
She could have married anyone |
The one she made her husband |
Was the handsomest of all |
They were married in a chapel |
Lily bore him seven children |
And every night he put her down |
And made her feel ashamed |
He took the face she used to wear |
And put a look of sorrow there |
The more he made her suffer |
The more she felt to blame |
No more tears Lily, don’t cry anymore |
Tears of yours won’t fall another time |
Don’t cry Lily we know how you’ve tried |
Fighting for your life was not a crime |
One night Lily turned to him |
Before he raised his hand to her |
One more time she said |
And not again |
He laughed and threw another punch |
The blow knocked Lily to the floor |
Somehow she grabbed the kitchen knife |
And stabbed her husband dead |
The jury they decided |
It was murder in the first degree |
They said she had provoked him |
With her wild and wicked talk |
They hanged her by the river |
Where so many times she wandered |
And left her children motherless |
In sorrow and in shock |
No more tears Lily, don’t cry anymore |
Tears of yours won’t fall another time |
Don’t cry Lily we know how you’ve tried |
Fighting for your life was not a crime |
A soldier in a uniform |
Is meant to kill the enemy |
But Lilly in her own defense |
Was framed to take the fall |
Her children watched their father beat |
Their mother all too often |
The battlefields of families |
Are the saddest of them all |
The willow weeps for Lily |
As its branches touch the water |
The wind is crying, «Lily» |
As it sighs along the shore |
The river’s singing «Lily |
We all know that you are innocent» |
You were promised marriage |
But you had to fight a war |
No more tears Lily, don’t cry anymore |
Tears of yours won’t fall another time |
Don’t cry Lily we know how you’ve tried |
Fighting for your life was not a crime |
Lily of the valley |
Lily of the valley |
Lily of the valley |