Album: Various – Sol Lucet Omnibus - A Tribute To Sol Invictus-2002 <br />Lyrics:And the sun goes over the woods <br />And the sun goes over the woods <br /> <br />There was a sister and her brother <br />And they did so love one another <br /> <br />O Sister, I'd lay ye down <br />O sister, we'll gang to the broom <br /> <br />O Brother, would you do so <br />For to my death I'd rather go <br /> <br />The folk they talk, they talk together <br />About a lass with bairn to her brother <br /> <br />O Brother, you've done me ill <br />And we'll both burn on yon hill <br /> <br />O Sister, go, go to my Father's stables <br />And take twa horses stout and able <br /> <br />She's on the white horse and he's on the black <br />With a yew tree bow slung to his back <br /> <br />They'd nae gone a mile but one <br />When her pains they did come on <br /> <br />I would give all my Father's Land <br />For a good midwife at my command <br /> <br />O brother, take me to yon hill so high <br />Fetch your bow and your arrow and your good eye <br /> <br />And when you hear my loud loud cry <br />You bend the bow and you let that arrow fly <br /> <br />And when he heard her loud loud cry <br />He bent that bow and he let that arrow fly <br /> <br />And when he came to her side <br />The babe was born and the lady died <br /> <br />He took up his newborn son <br />Took him to the arms of a milk woman <br /> <br />Then he cut himself for good and sure <br />He'll not gang to the broom any more <br /> <br />O Mother, I have lost my knife <br />I loved it better than my life <br /> <br />But I have lost a better thing <br />The bonnie sheath that my knife went in <br /> <br />But I have lost a better thing <br />The bonnie sheath that my knife went in <br /> <br />And the sun goes over the woods <br />And the sun goes over the woods
