I had entered into a marriageIn the summer of my twenty-first yearAnd the bells rang for our weddingOnly now do I remember it clearAlright, alright, alrightNo more a rake and no more a bachelorI was wedded and it whetted my thirstUntil her womb start spilling out babiesOnly then did I reckon my curseAlright, alright, alrightAlright, alright, alrightFirst came Isaiah with his crinkled little fingersThen came Charlotte and that wretched girl DawnUgly Myfanwy died on deliveryMercifully taking her mother alongAlright, alright, alrightWhat can one do when one is widowerShamefully saddled with three little pestsAll that I wanted was the freedom of a new lifeSo my burden I began to divestAlright, alright, alrightAlright, alright, alrightCharlotte I buried after feeding her foxgloveDawn was easy, she was drowned in the bathIsaiah fought but was easily bestedBurned his body for incurring my wrathAlright, alright, alrightAnd that's how I came your humble narratorTo be living so easy and freeExpect you think that I should be hauntedBut it never really bothers meAlright, alright, alrightAlright, alright, alright
Lyrics by Decemberists
(from My Own True Love) Lost At Sea 12\/17\/12 A Beginning Song A Bower Scene After The Bombs All Arise! Angel, Won't You Call Me? Annan Water Anti-Summersong Apology Song Bachelor And The Bride Bagman's Gambit Better Not Wake the Baby Billy Liar Calamity Song California One Youth And Beauty Brigade Carolina Low Cautionary Song Cavalry Captain Chimbley Sweep Clementine Cocoon Constantinople Culling Of The Fold Dear Avery Don't Carry It All Down By The Water Easy Come, Easy Go Eli, The Barrow Boy Engine Driver Everything I Try To Do, Nothing Seems To Turn Out ... From My Own True Love (Lost at Sea) Grace Cathedral Hill Gymnast, High Above The Ground Here I Dreamt I Was An Architect Hurdles Even Here I 4 U & U 4 Me I Was Meant For The Stage Infanta Isn't it a Lovely Night? January Hymn July, July! June Hymn Lake Song Legionnaire's Lament Leslie Anne Levine Los Angeles, I'm Yours Make You Better Margaret in Captivity Mariner's Revenge Song Mistral My Mother Was A Chinese Trapeze Artist O Valencia! Oceanside Odalisque Of Angels And Angles On The Bus Mall One Engine Philomena Red Right Ankle Rise To Me Riverswim Row Jimmy Rox In the Box Shankhill Butchers Shanty For The Arethusa Shiny Sixteen Military Wives Sleepless Soldiering Life Sons and Daughters Sporting Life Summersong Tain, Pts1 - 5 The Abduction of Margaret The Crane Wife 1 and 2 The Crane Wife 3 The Hazards of Love 1 The Hazards of Love 2 The Hazards of Love 3 The Hazards of Love 4 The Island-Come & See\/The Landlord\u2019s Daughte... The Kingdom Of Spain The Landlords Daughter The Perfect Crime #1 The Perfect Crime #2 The Queen's Approach The Queen's Rebuke The Singer Addresses His Audience The Tain (Parts I, II, III, IV, V) The Wanting Comes in Waves The Wrong Year This Is Why We Fight Till the Water Is All Long Gone Till The Water's All Long Gone We Both Go Down Together When The War Came Won't Want for Love Yankee Bayonet (I Will Be Home Then) Youth and Beauty Brigade