Angelo Branduardi - Under The Lime Tree lyrics

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Down in the greenwood, under the lime tree we spent lover's hours and if you pass by you'll know we lay there, look how we crushed all the flowers. The insects buzzed and the nightingales sang high above the forest on a soft south wind, point and laugh if you come walking past I don't care at all how red her mouth is. Down in the greenwood, under the lime tree crushing the grass and the sweet herbs there in the roses I laid my head down, see where the petals are disturbed. And if you accuse her of lying there with me this I know for sure she will never be ashamed: she was the one, the one and only woman I ever came to wish would whisper my name. Down in the greenwood, under the lime tree the lily embraces the ivy and if you pass by, stop look and marvel at how she has grown to survive him for she stayed here with me for just a year and bound her hair with gold, oh my little white dove... one fine day she turned into a hawk and flew off to the sun to find a new love. Up in the blue sky ever the wind flies searching the clouds of his dreamland, the dream is for beauty but he'll never catch her... She'll always slip through his hands and thus we live forever and the dream just like the wind and clouds will escape us... And thus we live forever and the world just like the wind and clouds will escape us