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The Rose Of Newfoundland

from A Candle For Durruti by Al Grierson

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lyrics

THE ROSE OF NEWFOUNDLAND

Come you lads and come you lasses
You who love from faraway
Gather round and fill your glasses
Listen to the words I say

It was in another country
I, a traveler on my way
Saw her once and fell forever
Lost my heart but failed to stay

Will she bide or will she go
Will she love me? I don’t know
Foreign flower among my heather
Honey sweet and wild as weather

For I let our duty bind me
And I did not tarry there
Only left my heart behind me
Tangled in her falling hair

For love is death and fond desire
As the arrow loves the lark
Even as the heart of fire
Brings its gladness to the dark

Will she bide or will she go
Will she love me? I don’t know
Foreign flower among my heather
Honey sweet and wild as weather

So may health betide her
I will give up all I own
Just to lay me down beside her
Though the bed be hard as stone

For like the sky with no horizon
Like the sea without the strand
While I live I’ll long forever
For the Rose of Newfoundland

Will she bide or will she go
Will she love me? I don’t know
Foreign flower among my heather
Honey sweet and wild as weather – ohh

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from A Candle For Durruti, released January 1, 1999

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