Sing Sweetly Darlin

by Class5Skankytown, Queensland, Australia

Mar 2012 295 Views 1 comments

Sing Sweetly Darlin'

Sing 'Santa Maria', for the time has come

Sing 'Santa Maria', all the work is done

Lay down by the river, until the day has flown

Lay down by the river, until the light has gone

Sing sweet my darlin', all your cares have gone

Sing sweetly darlin', before you leave me alone

I'll lay you by the river, and listen with all my heart

I'll lay you by the river, until it's time to part

~//~

I'll take you to the river, to watch the failing sun

I'll lay you by the river, until the time has come.

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Posted: Mar 2012

About this poem:

This is actually a song I wrote a few years ago. I returned home from the hospital where my father had been rushed with a serious head injury. We were informed that his chances of survival were slim.

I returned home and put on the radio and I heard a story about a farmer who died trapped under a tractor after an accident on a river bank. The farmer's wife was with him and couldn't get any mobile reception to call the flying doctor, nor could she drive back for they arrived together on the tractor. She lay beside him until he died in her arms.

I picked up my guitar and wrote this song in the style of a Celtic lament.