The Wind That Shakes The Barley Lyrics - Toward The Within (live) - Dead Can Dance

I sat within the valley green 

I sat me with my true love. 

My sad heart strove the two between 

The old love and the new love. 

The old for her the new 

That made me think on Ireland dearly. 

While the soft wind blew down the glade 

and shook the golden barley. 

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T'was hard the woeful words to frame 

To break the ties that bound us. 

But harder still to bear the shame 

of foreign chains around us. 

And so I said the mountain glen 

I'll meet at morning early. 

And I'll join the bold united men 

While soft winds shook the barley. 

T'was sad I kissed away her tears 

My fond arm round her flinging. 

When a foe, man's shot burst on our ears 

From out the wild woods ringing. 

A bullet pierced my true love's side 

In life's young spring so early. 

And on my breast in blood she died 

While soft winds shook the barley. 

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But blood for blood without remorse 

I've ta'en at oulart hollow. 

I've lain my true love's clay like corpse 

Where I full soon must follow. 

Around her grave I've wandered drear 

Noon, night, and morning early. 

With breaking heart when e'er I hear 

The wind that shakes the barley.