Orsa Ad Finis (I Ran)

It's been twenty years December since that evening I was with her

and for twenty years my vision remains true

Well I offered her my bed and a day we soon could wed

without a doubt her smile it said the same thing too

But when I woke up the next morning, me bonnie she was gone

All I found was a note by the bed

It said, you're so sweet young son but this is how I have my fun

Go and find a bonnie with a heart like yours instead

So I ran to the garden and I ran through the woods

I ran down the road to the nearest town

I searched alleyways and streets and questioned everyone I did meet

Have you seen me bonnie lass anywhere around

Discouraged I could not find her and to everyone described her

Until one man said, did you check across the road

It's one place I hadn't been, the local brothel full of sin

As I stepped close my heart jumped to my throat

Well I opened up that door, soon greeted by a whore

Describing all the features of the girl I was with the night before

She said she's busy now young lad, so unless there's another one that you'll have

Wait your turn and take a seat there by the door

Well I had ran to the garden and I'd ran through the woods

I ran down the road to the nearest town

I searched alleyways and streets and questioned everyone I did meet

Have you seen me bonnie lass anywhere around

Well me blood began to boil, and visions were uncoiled

So I shoved that strumpet down and headed up the stairs

I kicked open every door until I found that filthy whore

Her bed mate jumped up with a knife and an icy glare

Me naked bonnie started crying, and I'm not afraid of dying

So I jumped right in and caught that bastards arm

I took his knife and knocked him cold then I slit her bloody throat

The whole house screamed and I heard the alarm

So I ran to the garden and I ran through the woods

I ran to the shore with a new found yearn

Where a ship had just left dock, the guards chasing me wouldn't stop

So I jumped in and swam out to the stern

The ships Captain gave me pardon, he said she had it coming

The crew laughed and scorned her and offered up some rum

since then I killed twenty-nine men, I've raped and pillaged on sea and land

but now it seems my wicked days are done

Because here I am on the gallows, and the rope has been pulled taut

I'm hit by fruit and rocks and rotten meat

My sentence it is read, in a moment I'll be dead

About that time the floor collapsed beneath my feet........

Well I ran to the garden I ran through the woods

I ran all the way to the bloody shore

but the character in this song he's as dead as dead can be

and he won't be bloody running anymore