Lyrics

“My Lover’s Arms”
Album - Homeward
by Maggie Vogts
Copyright 2014

Where the blue hills fade as the sun sinks down,
And the shadow-trees sway on the ground.
There she waits ‘neath the leaves where a love went so wrong.
Emerald eyes bear a wailing song.

(chorus) - Ooo, Ooo
Let me lie in my lover’s arms.

Strayed from her home as he beckoned her near.
“Hang on tight, little Liza,” his words in her ear.
They lived in the night-land, ‘midst sorrow and wrong;
For love, bore a wailing song.

(chorus) - Ooo, Ooo
Let me die in my lover’s arms.

Well, wolves never stay when lanterns draw near.
He abandoned Miss Liza, his child so near.
A rope ‘round her neck. The law strung her so high.
Said, “You ran with Bo Randle. For murder, you’ll die.”

(chorus) - Ooo, Ooo
You will die for your lover’s arms.

Where the blue hills fade as the sun sinks down,
And the shadow-trees sway on the ground.
There’s a cool in the shade no fire-flame can warm.
Hands of ice, still the wind wails a song.

(Chorus) Ooo, Ooo
Hang me high for my lover’s arms.

Ooo, Ooo
Hang me high for my lover’s arms.