Whitehaven Lyrics - Singing Bones - Handsome Family

What a hideous forest surrounded Whitehaven 

Twisted black mountains, wolves howled in madness 

Never I ventured beyond the stone tower 

As dusk spread her black wings at the edge of the dark wild wood 

But one windy evening, gathering timbers 

Under white elm trees in shadows, I saw her 

The darkest of beauties with her basket of cherries 

The wind at her black skirt like the hands of the wild dark wood 

She turned in her terror, a madness possessed her 

In shadow she clawed me, we screamed in the brambles 

Hunters came running with torches and axes 

Treetop to treetop, flames tore through the dark wild wood 

Back down they dragged us past the stone towers 

The church bells were ringing, the sky screamed in flashes 

But we stood in the church yard laughing like jackals 

As the stone towers tumbled and bowed to the wild dark wood