[00:00.00]时代音乐网 www.78497.com  [00:24.23]A mother lived by the North Sea shore [00:26.47]Daughters were the babes she bore [00:28.79]When the radiant as the sun [00:31.16]Darkly grew the elder one [00:33.49]A knight came riding to their door [00:35.94]He travelled far to be their wooer [00:38.27]He courted both with gold and rings [00:40.63]But loved the younger o'er all things [00:47.82]Sister won't you walk with me [00:50.17]To watch the ships sail o'er the sea [00:52.44]As they walked the rocky shore [00:54.73]The dark one pushed her sister o'er [00:57.21]Sister sister let me live [00:59.55]All that's mine I'll surely give [01:01.82]Thy bridegroom I will take and more [01:04.33]But thou shalt never come ashore [01:16.30]Off she floated like a swan [01:18.49]The salt sea bore her body on [01:20.48]You could not see her lily feet [01:23.17]Her golden fringes were so deep [01:25.51]A minstrel walking by the strand [01:27.93]Saw her body float to land [01:30.31]When he looked that lady on [01:32.65]He sighed and made a heavy moan [01:54.02]He made a harp of her breastbone [01:56.31]Whose sound would melt a heart of stone [01:58.63]Took the strands of her bright hair [02:01.11]And with them strung his harp so rare [02:12.75]He brought the harp to the wedding hall [02:15.17]There to play before them all [02:17.59]When they set it on a stone [02:19.95]The harp began to play alone [02:40.93]The strings sang out a dreadful sound [02:43.54]The bride her younger sister drowned [02:45.94]Now her secret you all know [02:48.28]Her guilty tears will surely flow