Silver Birch and Weeping Willow - Ralph McTell

How can the weeping willow Describes your imagery? I've seen it fading yellow An eager son within Just see the colors bleeding It's a beautiful sight to see And when your vision's lazy So do the paintings see

To her mama and her daddy She's the best thing ever made To the boys round here She's the one that got away To the bird on the barbwire That girl looks like spring To a guy like me She looks like everything That girl can take a gray sky and paint it blue She can put the smooth in the 90 proof She can hang the moon in a sundress Even put a sinner on a front pew She can make shining diamond Out of West Virginia coal She can put a smile on a weeping willow There's something in the way that girl moves It's like a spotlight follows her through a crowded room She showed up like rain on a desert rose And where I'd be without her God only knows That girl can take a gray sky and paint it blue She can put the smooth in the 90 proof She can hang the moon in a sundress Even put a sinner on a front pew She can make shining diamond Out of West Virginia coal She can put a smile on a weeping willow That girl can take a gray sky and paint it blue She can put the smooth in the 90 proof She can hang the moon in a sundress Even put a sinner on a front pew She can make shining diamond Out of West Virginia coal She can put a smile on a weeping willow She can put a smile on a weeping willow A weeping willow

When morning breaks We hide our eyes and our lungs aching Nothing strange It was in our hands from six to ten It slipped right out again There'll be no better time There'll be no better way There'll be no better day to save me Save me Yeah, save me Yeah, save me I hope you see like I see, oh, oh I hope you see what I see, yeah, yeah I hope you feel like I feel, yeah And the world don't stop There is no time for cracking up Believe me friend 'Cause when freedom comes I'll be long gone You know it has to end There'll be no better time There'll be no better way There'll be no better day to save me Yeah, save me Yeah, save me Yeah, save me I hope you see like I see, yeah, yeah I hope you feel what I feel, yeah, yeah Someone to stand beside me Beside me Beside me, now is not the time to cry Beside me Beside me Whether you see or whether you don't, beside me Whether you feel or whether you won't, beside me Whether you see or whether you don't, beside me Whether you feel or whether you won't, beside me Whether you see or whether you won't, beside me Whether you feel beside me I hope you see like I see beside me I hope you feel what I feel beside me I hope you see like I see beside me I hope you feel what I feel beside me Weeping willow The pills under my pillow Weeping willow The pills under my pillow Weeping willow The gun under your pillow Weeping willow Weeping willow I got to learn to leave the pain Walk through the door and kiss the rain beside me, beside me I got to learn to leave the pain Walk through the door and kiss the rain beside me, beside me

My heart is sad and I'm in sorrow For the only one I love When shall I see him, oh, no, never Till I meet him in heaven above Oh, bury me under the weeping willow Yes under the weeping willow tree So he may know where I am sleeping And perhaps he will weep over me They told me that he did not love me I could not believe it was true Until an angel softly whispered He has proven untrue to you Oh, bury me under the weeping willow Yes under the weeping willow tree So he may know where I am sleeping And perhaps he will weep over me Tomorrow was our wedding day But, oh Lord, oh, where is he He's gone to seek him another bride And he cares no more for me Oh, bury me under the weeping willow Yes under the weeping willow tree So he may know where I am sleeping And perhaps he will weep over me Oh, bury me under the violets blue To prove my love to him Tell him that I would die to save him For his love I never could win Oh, bury me under the weeping willow Yes under the weeping willow tree So he may know where I am sleeping And perhaps he will weep over me

Delia, Delia, how can it be? You love that old rounder, but you don't love me Well, that's one more rounder gone Delia, Delia sitting all around Some of your old rounders gonna pay my way back home Sitting on the housetop, high as I can see You love that old rounder, but you don't love me Delia's poor mother took a trip out West When she returned, Delia lyin' in rest Delia's mother wept, Delia's father moaned They'd have wanted their poor child to die at home Rubber tired buggy, two-seated hack, Took Delia to the graveyard, never brought her back Kenny lookin' high, Kenny lookin' low, Shot poor Delia with that hated .44 Delia, Delia, wouldn't take no one's advice Last words I heard her say were, "Jesus Christ!" Judge said to Kenny, "Here's a natural fact: You going to wait in jail till Delia come back" Kenny's in the basement, drinking from a silver cup Delia's in the graveyard, never come back up Kenny said to judge, "What's the fuss about? Just that no good woman trying to put me out"

I was travelin' through South Americas Walked up to a lady's house Called her Grandma Didn't know her name, she give me something to eat Walked on down the road I heard a old train, getting off like this I heard a old bell ring, kinda like this I went on down, I heard an old whistle blow, I heard it saying Look a-yonder Look a-yonder At the women At the women I went on then, and begin to sing to the engineer Mr. Engineer, let a man ride the blinds Mr. Engineer, let a poor man ride the blinds Said, "I wouldn't mind it, fella But you know this train ain't mine" I begin to hear that old fella blow it long, sho' Here the way he blowed Then I begin to sing to him one more time You're a cruel fireman, low-down engineer You're a cruel fireman, low-down engineer I'm trying' to hobo my way And you leave me standing' here Then I go along further and begin to sing "Poor Boy" to him Then he begin to smile in my face Get up, fella, ride all 'round the world Get up, fella, ride all 'round the world Poor boy, you ain't got no girl Then I begin to hear him tell me about those cheese and eggs How he wanted 'em fixed Hear him say Scrambled down Scrambled down Scrambled down Then I begin to hear him tell me about those cheese and eggs I hear him say Cheese Eggs Dinner Dinner Then I begin to hear him tell me about Emry I love you Emry, I love you true Love you, Emry, tell the world I do 'Em

Wake up mama, turn your lamp down low Wake up mama, turn your lamp down low Have you got the nerve to drive Papa McTell from your door My mother died and left me reckless My daddy died and left me wild, wild, wild Mother died and left me reckless Daddy died and left me wild, wild, wild No, I'm not good lookin' I'm some sweet woman's Angel child You're a mighty mean woman, to do me this a way You're a mighty mean woman, to do me this a way When I leave this town, pretty mama, I'm going away to stay While I loved a woman, better than even I'd ever seen I once loved a woman, better than even I'd ever seen Treat me like I was a king and she was a doggone queen Sister, tell your brother, brother tell your auntie now Auntie tell your uncle, uncle tell my cousin now, cousin tell my friend Goin' up the country, mama, don't you want to go? May take me a fair brown, may take me one or two more Big Eighty left Savannah, Lord, and did not stop You ought to saw that colored fireman when he got that boiler hot You can reach over in the corner mama and hand me my travelin' shoes You know by that, I've got them Statesboro blues Mama, sister got 'em, auntie got 'em Brother got 'em, friend got 'em, I got 'em Woke up this morning, we had them Statesboro blues I looked over in the corner, grandpa and grandma had 'em too