The Wind That Shakes The Barley Lyrics - The Wind That Shakes The Barley - Loreena Mckennitt

I sat within a valley green 

I sat there with my true love 

My heart strove to choose between 

The old love and the new love 

The old for her, the new that made 

Me think on Ireland dearly 

While soft the wind blew down the glade 

And shook the golden barley 

'Twas 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 seek at morning early 

And join the brave United Men 

While soft winds shook the barley" 

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'Twas sad I kissed away her tears 

Her arms around me clinging 

When to my ears the fateful shot 

Came out the wildwood ringing 

The bullet pierced my true love's breast 

In life's young spring so early 

And all upon my breast she died 

While soft winds shook the barley 

I bore her to some mountain stream 

And many's the summer blossom 

I placed with branches soft and green 

About her gore-stained bosom 

I wept and kissed her clay-cold corpse 

Then rushed o'er vale and valley 

My vengeance on the foe to wreak 

While soft winds shook the barley 

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'Twas blood for blood without remorse 

I took at Oulart Hollow 

I placed my true love's clay-cold corpse 

Where I full soon may follow 

Around her grave I wandered drear 

Noon, night and morning early 

With aching heart when e'er I hear 

The wind that shakes the barley