I Fell In Love - Alasdair Roberts

I fell in love with the roll of her drum

Fell in love with her horn’s blaring noise

And I fell in love with her lute’s gentle strum

And I fell in love with her voice

Polly lay over, so close to the wall

When I opened my mouth for to sing

And my throat could not stall the melodious call

My words in the chamber did ring:

«I will squeeze your lungs like the bellows of an organ

And blow on your bones like the pipes

With a rat-a-tat-tat on your skull like a drum

A rat-a-tat-tat on your skull

Of your yellow hair, oh, I will fashion a bow

To scrape out a tune on your heart

Of your long fingernails I will fashion ten quills

To pluck on your veins like a harp."

Polly rose up when my words were all told

And this she did say unto me

«I will visit the same upon thee thousand-fold

I will visit the same upon thee

And may you become one with the water so dumb

Flow away, flow away, flow away

Flow away, flow away, flow away, flow away

Away, flow away, flow away."