Tulip Lyrics - Hunting My Dress - Jesca Hoop

Ada, my rarest bud from the desert valley 

Your hair of fire and skin of snow 

Have coursed me to the heights of the desert mountains 

In search of the cure for a rampant fever 

Your beauty's power, it plagues me now 

I come and scour the land for the desert flower 

For beauty and perfume I'd stake my house and my lands 

The gold is sleeping in the river but the flower's in my hand 

With a paler leaf and a broken petal, I'll paint the king and queen 

And to the goldsmith with my flower I'll buy your wedding ring 

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Tulip, tulip 

With one word I'd a-buy 

Oxen, sheep and wheat and rye 

Land on the north seaside 

Tulip, tulip 

With one word I'd a-buy 

The finest dresses man can buy 

And a pearl for to pay my bride 

Then with my rarest bowl to her father's garden 

Like gold for lamb or wool for clam I gave that man a bowl for his daughter Ada 

Your heart is mine and it's mine forever 

And she replied, "my fate that lies on yon horizon's tethered me to the sky" 

The match arranged, and vows exchanged and the dove flew away 

The bells spilled out the hollow canyon on our wedding day 

To me she gave her hand and to death do us part 

But the bird will nest with one that she has promised her heart 

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Tulip, tulip 

With one word I'd a-buy 

The bed from which our sons will rise 

And the window where she cries 

Tulip, tulip 

With one word I'd a-buy 

A net to catch the birds that fly from the window where she cries 

He reaches out and I withdraw 

Spilling the flowering bribes from his paw 

The broken petals climbing the walls 

Stealing my oxygen, no air at all 

From the bed I hear him call 

But I answer cooing when the night falls 

The cotton sword is storming the hall 

Cutting my vision to no sight at all 

I tied the tulip around her neck 

Like a red lead sinker 

And blindfold and spin around 

And round and round 

To the banks of the river and then walk 

My true love into the rushing water 

And by her long hair, bleeding red 

Hair-pulled my love there under until she drown 

For beauty and perfume I'd stake my house and my lands 

My love is sleeping in the river but the flower's in my hand 

With a paler leaf and a broken petal 

I'll keep her all to me 

And to the river with my flower 

I'll hear my true love sing 

Your water is still in my friend 

Ready to drown 

Water, water oh water my kin 

Carry me out 

This Eine river is mercy at last 

Die as she laughs for 

He's waiting with a dove's nest 

My true love 

Tulip, tulip 

With one word I'd a-buy 

A veil that parted o'er my bride 

And the breath as my true love died 

Tulip, tulip 

With one word I'd a-buy 

A veil that parted o'er my bride 

And the blue from the bluest eye