Annachie Gordon

Song Annachie Gordon
Artist Loreena McKennitt
Album The Journey Begins

Lyrics

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[00:17.79] Traditional, arranged by Loreena McKennitt
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[00:27.79] Harking is bonny and there lives my love
[00:35.76] My love lies on him and cannot remove
[00:46.29] It cannot remove for all that I have done
[00:54.16] And I never will forget my love Annachie
[01:04.80] For Annachie Gordon he's bonny and he's bright
[01:12.40] He'd entice any woman that e'er he saw
[01:22.16] He'd entice any woman and so he has done me
[01:29.93] And I never will forget my love Annachie.
[01:40.45] Down came her father and he's standing at the door
[01:47.95] Saying Jeannie you are trying the tricks of a whore
[01:58.21] You care nothing for a man who cares so much for thee
[02:05.49] You must marry Lord Sultan and leave Annachie
[02:15.95] For Annachie Gordon is barely but a man
[02:23.17] Although he may be pretty but where are his lands
[02:32.81] For the Sultan's lands are broad and his towers they run high
[02:40.81] You must marry Lord Sultan and leave Annachie.
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[02:52.00] With Annachie Gordon I beg for my bread
[02:59.66] Before I marry Sultan his gold to my head
[03:10.14] With gold to my head and straight down to my knee
[03:17.71] I'll die if I don't get my love Annachie
[03:28.24] And you who are my parents to church you may me bring
[03:35.19] But onto Lord Sultan I'll never bear a son
[03:44.89] To a son or a daughter I'll never bow my knee
[03:52.83] And I'll die if I don't get my love Annachie.
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[04:04.14] Jeannie was married and from church was brought home
[04:12.05] When she and her maidens so merry should have been
[04:22.23] When she and her maidens so merry should have been
[04:29.49] She goes into her chamber and cries all alone.
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[04:41.45] Come to bed my Jeannie my honey and my sweet
[04:49.59] To stile you my mistress it would be so sweet
[04:59.85] Be it mistress or Jeannie it's all the same to me
[05:06.87] But in your bed Lord Sultan I never will lie
[05:17.43] And down came her father and he's spoken with reknown
[05:24.53] Saying you who are her maidens
[05:28.88] Go loosen up her gowns
[05:32.13] And she fell down to the floor
[05:35.86] And straight down to his knee saying
[05:41.55] Father look I'm dying for my love Annachie.
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[06:14.67] The day that she married was the day that Jeannie died
[06:22.41] And the day that young Annachie came home on the tide
[06:33.02] And down came her maidens all wringing of their hands
[06:40.24] Saying oh it's been so long? You've been so long on the sands
[06:50.34] So long on the sands so long on the flood
[06:58.02] They have married your Jeannie and now she lies dead.
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[07:10.86] You who are her maidens come take me by the hand
[07:18.65] And lead me to the chamber where my love she lies in
[07:28.78] And he kissed her cold lips till his heart it turned to stone
[07:36.36] And he died in the chamber that his love she lies in.
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