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THE DAMOZELS	A
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Lady Alice lady Louise	A
Between the wash of the tumbling seas	A
We are ready to sing if so ye please	A
So lay your long hands on the keys	A
Sing Laudate pueri	B
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And ever the great bell overhead	C
Boom'd in the wind a knell for the dead	C
Though no one toll'd it a knell for the dead	C
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LADY LOUISE	A
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Sister let the measure swell	D
Not too loud for you sing not well	D
If you drown the faint boom of the bell	D
He is weary so am I	E
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And ever the chevron overhead	C
Flapped on the banner of the dead	C
Was he asleep or was he dead	C
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LADY ALICE	A
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Alice the Queen and Louise the Queen	F
Two damozels wearing purple and green	F
Four lone ladies dwelling here	B
From day to day and year to year	B
And there is none to let us go	G
To break the locks of the doors below	G
Or shovel away the heaped up snow	G
And when we die no man will know	G
That we are dead but they give us leave	H
Once every year on Christmas eve	H
To sing in the Closet Blue one song	I
And we should be so long so long	I
If we dared in singing for dream on dream	J
They float on in a happy stream	J
Float from the gold strings float from the keys	A
Float from the open'd lips of Louise	A
But alas the sea salt oozes through	B
The chinks of the tiles of the Closet Blue	B
And ever the great bell overhead	C
Booms in the wind a knell for the dead	C
The wind plays on it a knell for the dead	C
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They sing all together	B
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How long ago was it how long ago	G
He came to this tower with hands full of snow	G
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Kneel down O love Louise kneel down he said	C
And sprinkled the dusty snow over my head	C
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He watch'd the snow melting it ran through my hair	B
Ran over my shoulders white shoulders and bare	B
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I cannot weep for thee poor love Louise	A
For my tears are all hidden deep under the seas	A
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In a gold and blue casket she keeps all my tears	A
But my eyes are no longer blue as in old years	A
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Yea they grow grey with time grow small and dry	E
I am so feeble now would I might die	E
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And in truth the great bell overhead	C
Left off his pealing for the dead	C
Perchance because the wind was dead	C
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Will he come back again or is he dead	C
O is he sleeping my scarf round his head	C
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Or did they strangle him as he lay there	B
With the long scarlet scarf I used to wear	B
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Only I pray thee Lord let him come here	B
Both his soul and his body to me are most dear	B
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Dear Lord that loves me I wait to receive	H
Either body or spirit this wild Christmas eve	H
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Through the floor shot up a lily red	C
With a patch of earth from the land of the dead	C
For he was strong in the land of the dead	C
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What matter that his cheeks were pale	K
His kind kiss'd lips all grey	B
O love Louise have you waited long	I
O my lord Arthur yea	B
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What if his hair that brush'd her cheek	L
Was stiff with frozen rime	J
His eyes were grown quite blue again	M
As in the happy time	J
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O love Louise this is the key	N
Of the happy golden land	O
O sisters cross the bridge with me	N
My eyes are full of sand	O
What matter that I cannot see	N
If ye take me by the hand	O
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And ever the great bell overhead	C
And the tumbling seas mourned for the dead	C
For their song ceased and they were dead	C

William Morris

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