Sweet Ophelia

She turned down the captain

When he came around to score

She said her heart was promised to

A midshipman from baltimore

He offered her his mansion

He offered her his gold

But she slipped away to a lonely place

With no man's hand to hold

Still sweet ophelia

I feel your love reach out

Across the miles of ocean

There can be no doubt

The lawyer's means were modest

He brought her danish wine

And an heirloom necklace of cultured

Pearls from down his family line

But all of his advances

Her heart was cold as stone

She said, "sir before i'd accept your gifts,

I'll walk these bowery streets alone"

Still sweet ophelia

I feel your love reach out

Across the miles of ocean

There can be no doubt

Still sweet ophelia

I feel your love reach out

Across the miles of ocean

There can be no doubt

Some say she died of fever

Up in her attic room

Some tell me that she hung herself

In a ?

I heard she sealed the windows

And never lit the stove

But i like to dream she drowned herself

On a ?

Still sweet ophelia

I feel your love reach out

Across the miles of ocean

There can be no doubt