Trumpeter Swan Lyrics - Jane Siberry

Will you wipe the flour from your hands and look this way? 

Perfect, now hold your apron by your side 

Perfect, no, no, your hair's just fine 

Perfect 

Will you let me paint you? I'll take such pride 

Many sorrows, many ways life could be kinder 

But you laugh a lot, life is still a surprise 

Meeting you and greeting you is always an armful 

Oceans of love, crinkling in your eyes 

Neck white and eager, my trumpeter swan 

Gliding through the ferns the fronds 

We feel your love 

Oh, trumpeter swan, oh, love on 

Now I see you kneeling amidst the fiddle-heads 

And ferns at the side of the pond 

Weaving 13 magic flaxen shirts for 13 brother swans 

And never once in your sweet thoughts 

Do you ever think maybe you might fail 

In your unknowing way your love is strong 

Me, I fear the 13 brother swans are going 

Me, I curse them when they've gone 

But you will never know for we will rearrange 

The ferns and fronds to re-surround you 

The devil makes us see more and you don't see more 

But somehow you go beyond 

Neck white and eager, my trumpeter swan 

Gliding through the ferns the fronds 

We feel your love 

Oh, trumpeter swan, oh, love on 

When I think of you, I think of Christmas 

Of oranges and mangers on the mantelpiece 

Of red and greens and velvets 

Of stars that twinkle on the Christmas tree 

I don't know if trumpeter swans are immortal 

But if ever from this beautiful pond you should fly 

The reason would be, the reason would be 

You were loved too much by them by I 

Neck white and eager, my trumpeter swan 

Gliding through the ferns the fronds 

We feel your love 

Oh, trumpeter swan, oh, love on