Lily Of The Valley Lyrics - Judy Collins

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. 

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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. 

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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