Flowers Of May

"Wake, oh wake my dearest jeanie

And accept these flowers of may

The sun breaks with my love for you

And I beg you come away"

"Oh my father will not have you

And my mother she says no

They say you must earn wealth and rank

Before they let me go"

"Then my ship shall sail the ocean

On a tide of velvet blue

And I shall rides the waves love

As the stars watch over you"

Well he's boarded on the trenby

And not far gone from the strand

When the cruel south wind so wickedly

Pushed that ship back to land

On the rocks by bishop corner

In the night she's caught and done

And there's neither sight nor sound left

With the breaking of the sun

"Oh your ship lies in the ocean

In a grave of velvet blue

And I shall curse the stars love

As the waves wash over you"

Seven hours she's lost in weeping

'Till to the cliff's edge she has gone

But as she closed her eyes

There came a whisper soft and strong

"I would swim a thousand oceans

To bring you the flowers of may

And I've fought the freezing waters grasp

To beg you come away"

In a cottage by the ocean

There's a song of velvet blue

May you love, may you be loved

And may the stars watch over you