The Water Lily Lyrics

Not a very happy song !!
Ralph Stanley
A lonely young wife in her dreaming discerns
A lily decked pool with a border of ferns
And a beautiful child with butterfly wings
Drifts down to the edge of the water and sings
(CHORUS)
Come mama, come, quick follow me
Step out on the leaves of the water lily
And the lonely young wife, her heart beating wild
Cries wait till I come, till I reach you my child
But the beautiful child with butterfly wings
Steps out on the leaves of the lily and sings
(REPEAT CHORUS)
Instrumental:D-G-D-A-D-G-D-A-D
And the wife in her dreaming steps out on the stream
But the lily leaves sink and she wakes from her dream
Oh the waking is sad, for the tears that it brings
And she knows its her dead baby's spirit that sings
(REPEAT CHORUS X2)