Story Behind The Song
Mary, the main character of the song, dies while in a foreign land, and her grief stricken lover remembers their last parting on the banks of the Lee river.
Song Description
Combining the beauty of traditional Celtic music with a modern musical approach to sounds and technology, the new CD "lovedeathbeauty" is Green Man's just completed independent follow-up to their 1999 debut self-titled album -- and is scheduled for releas
| Song Length |
6:15 |
Genre |
World - Celtic, Electronic - Experimental |
| Tempo |
Slow (71 - 90) |
Lead Vocal |
Mixed Vocals |
| Mood |
Moving, Poignant |
Subject |
Sadness, Lost Love |
| Similar Artists |
Dead Can Dance, Jethro Tull |
Language |
English |
| Era |
2000 and later |
| |
Lyrics
I loved her very dearly
So true and sincerely
There was no one in this wide world
I loved better than she
Every bush, every bower
Every sweet Irish flower
Reminds me of my Mary
On the banks of the Lee
Don't stay out late, love
On the moorlands, my Mary
Don't stay out late, love
On the moorlands from me
How little was our notion
When we parted on the ocean
That we were forever parted
From the banks of the Lee
I will pluck her some roses
Some blooming Irish roses
I will pluck her some roses
The fairest that ever grew
And I'll lay them on the grave
Of my own true lovely Mary
In that cold and silent churchyard
Where she sleeps 'neath the dew
I loved her very dearly
So true and sincerely
There was no one in this wide world
I loved better than she
Every bush, every bower
Every sweet Irish flower
Reminds me of my Mary
On the banks of the Lee