Bluebeard - Patty Griffin

Maiden said «I'll marry you

I’ll be yours and I’ll be true

I’ll consent to be your bride

All my days, at your side

That is how I live my life»

Maiden no more

Her mother and her sister warned

The man, he was not natural born

His eyes were black and his beard was blue

But the maiden saw her own love true

There was nothing they could do

Maiden no more

The man gave her a ring of keys

Professed his love down on his knees

Said «Everything I have is free

But this one door and this one key»

He said, «Don't you look in there

Or I’ll kill you cold and dead, I swear»

Gave her such a weight to bear

Then the man, he rode away

Then the bride went wild night and day

Only to find she wanted more

She had the key, she found the door

Chain and blood was on the floor

A stain that was not there before

Maiden no more

Maiden no more

Maiden no more

Maiden no more

The man came back to take her life

To cut her with a cold gray knife

To lay her there with all the rest

Blood and bones and faded dress

To cast her to the deep darkness

But the man with his intentions stated

Found he’d underestimated

The forces of the sea and the sand

The light and the life of the land

All rose up with a hundred hands

All rose up and killed that man

All rose up with a hundred hands

All rose up and killed that man

Maiden no more

Maiden no more

Maiden no more

Maiden no more