Sound Of A Drum - Seth Lakeman

I come to you with honour

I come to you in vain

I’ve come to you my true love

In the greenwood you were slain

I do as much for my love

As any young man may

I’ll sit and mourn her memory

For twelve months and a day

The sound of a drum

Is beating all around

Like a shadow on the run

Caught in the dark

And lover lay down

She lay down

I’ll think upon this garden

The purest footprints walked

The fairest flower now blossomed

Has now withered to a stalk

Your lips they are cold sweetheart

Your breath is earthly strong

And if I kiss your cold clay lips

My time here may not be long

The sound of a drum

Is beating all around

Like a shadow on the run

Caught in the dark

And lover lay down

She lay down

Lover lay down

She lay down

The sound of a drum

I hear it beating all around me

Like a shadow on the run

Caught in the dark

The sound of a drum

I hear it beating all around me

Like a shadow on the run

Caught in the dark

She lay down