Judy Collins - Lily Of The Valley lyrics

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Lily of the Valley

Lily of the Valley

Lily of the Valley

They called her Lily of the Valley

And she lived beside the river

The youngest of her sisters

And the prettiest of them all

She was courted by the men in town

She could have married anyone

The one she made her husband

Was the handsomest of all.

They were married in a chapel

Lily bore him seven children

And every night he put her down

And made her feel ashamed.

He took the face she used to wear

And put a look of sorrow there

The more he made her suffer

The more she felt to blame

No more tears Lily

Don't cry anymore

Tears of yours won't fall another time.

Don't cry Lilly

We know how you've tried

Fighting for your life was not a crime.

One night Lily turned to him

Before he raised his hand to her

One more time she said, and not again

He laughed and threw another punch

The blow knocked Lily to the floor,

Somehow she grabbed the kitchen knife

And stabbed her husband dead.

The jury they decided it was murder in the first degree

They said she had provoked him

With her wild and wicked talk.

They hanged her by the river

Where so many times she wandered

And left her children motherless

In sorrow and in shock.

No more tears Lily

Don't cry anymore

Tears of yours won't fall another time.

Don't cry Lilly

We know how you've tried

Fighting for your life was not a crime.

A soldier in a uniform is meant to kill the enemy

But Lilly in her own defense was framed to take the fall

Her children watched their father beat their mother all too often

The battlefields of families are the saddest of them all.

The willow weeps for Lily

As its branches touch the water

The wind is crying, "Lily"

As it sighs along the shore

The river's singing "Lily --

We all know that you are innocent"

You were promised marriage

But you had to fight a war.

No more tears Lily

Don't cry any more

Tears of yours won't fall another time.

Don't cry Lily

We know how you tried

Fighting for your life was not a crime.

Lily of the Valley

Lily of the Valley

Lily of the Valley