[00:16.26]I have myself a silver blade
[00:19.90]The edge is sharp the handle bone
[00:21.61]A little thing of silver made
[00:25.46]Now it's the only thing I own
[00:33.54]Once I knew a lordling fine
[00:36.30]I heard him whistle as he rode
[00:38.81]And I was bold enough to call him mine
[00:43.10]The shoes upon his horse were gold
[00:47.34]Shoes were gold
[00:49.44]
[00:50.50]One look in my eyes and he
[00:53.35]Bid me climb onto his horse
[00:56.10]He asked if I'd his lady be
[01:00.21]And come away forever more
[01:07.92]He spoke of love songs in each kiss
[01:10.70]And I who was a young girl then
[01:13.42]Was promised every young girl's bliss
[01:17.51]Got up and rode away with him
[01:24.78]Away with him
[01:26.87]
[01:28.18]He took me to his castle tall
[01:31.30]With promises and jewels until
[01:33.75]He led me through his castle hall
[01:37.91]Then took my clothes and worked his will
[01:45.59]And when he had and I lay there
[01:48.53]From my head with a silver blade
[01:51.38]He cut a lock of coal black hair
[01:55.43]And bid me dress and go my way
[02:00.16]Go my way
[02:03.29]
[02:27.43]But I marked well the silver blade
[02:30.11]And where he set it when he did
[02:32.82]And when his back was turned I laid
[02:35.74]It buried deep beneath his ribs
[02:43.24]I used my dagger as a spade
[02:46.22]Where the thorns and lilacs grow
[02:48.97]Cut the ground into a grave
[02:53.70]In a place even God don't know
[02:59.43]
[03:00.73]And every evening I returned
[03:03.57]To the place for him I'd chose
[03:06.19]Until his skin had turned to worms
[03:10.41]Wild dogs scattered round his bones
[03:17.88]And all I have of what I was
[03:20.98]Is the memory of a maid
[03:23.67]Who mistook a thief for love
[03:27.73]But who gained a silver blade
[03:37.57]Silver Blade