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Composer: Dennis Turner

The Louvin Brothers - Mary of the Wild Moor lyrics



It was on one cold wintery night
And the wind blew across the wild moor
When Mary came wandering
home with her child
Till she came to her own father's door.

Father, dear father, she cried
Come down and open the door
Or the child in my arms
will perish and die
From the winds
that blow across the wild moor.

Why did I leave this fair spot
Where once I was happy and free
I am now doomed to roam
without friends or a home
And no one to take pity on me.

[instrumental break]

But the father was deaf to her cry
Not a sound of her voice did he hear
So watch dog did howl
and the village bells tolled
And the wind blew across the wild moor

Oh, how the old man must have felt
When he came to the door the next morn'
And found Mary dead
but the child still alive
Closely grasping his dead mother's arms.

In anguish, he tore his gray hair
And the tears down his cheeks they did pour
When he saw how that night
she had perished and died
From the winds that blew across the wild moor.

[instrumental break]

In grief the old man pined away
And the child to its mother went soon
And no one they say
have lived there to this day
And the cottage to ruin has gone.

But the villagers point out the spot
Where the willows droop over the door
Saying there Mary died
once a gay village bride
From the winds that blew across the wild moor.
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