[RIP John Renbourn] e quindi e` giunto il momento di commuoversi un po' http://www.youtube.com/watch... The Pentangle - Cruel Sister
There lived a lady by the North Sea shore /
(Lay the bent to the bonnie broom) /
Two daughters were the babes she bore /
(Fa la la la la la la la la la)
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As one grew bright as in the sun /
So coal black grew the elder one
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A knight came riding to the lady's door /
He'd travelled far to be their wooer
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He courted one with gloves and rings /
But loved the other above all things
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Oh sister will you go with me /
To watch the ships sail on the sea?
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She took her sister by the hand /
And led her down to the North Sea strand
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And as they stood on the windy shore /
The dark girl threw her sister o'er
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Sometimes she sank, sometimes she swam /
Crying sister reach to me your hand
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Oh sister, sister let me live /
And all that's mine I'll surely give
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It's your own truelove that I'll have and more /
But thou shalt never come ashore
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And there she floated like a swan /
The salt sea bore her body on
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Two minstrels walked along the strand /
And saw the maiden float to land
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They made a harp of her breast bone /
Whose sound would melt a heart of stone
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They took three locks of her yellow hair /
And with them strung the harp so rare
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They went into her father's hall /
To play the harp before them all
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But as they laid it on a stone /
The harp began to play alone
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The first string sang a doleful sound /
The bride her younger sister drowned
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The second string as that they tried /
In terror sits the black-haired bride
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The third string sang beneath their bow /
And surely now her tears will flow
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