MARIANNE
Lyrics: Mara Cinzia Catia Campobasso
Music: Giovanni Mastrangelo, Nicola Cicerale
One morning in May a fair maid I saw
She lived by the river down in the wood
In secret I spied her behind a big tree
She danced on the meadows with her bare feet.
Her long hair was red like the setting sun
Her eyes were green like the depth of the sea
Her movements so gentle just grazed the air
Oh, how I would love to know her name...
I went there to view her day after day
But one morn she found out my hiding place
She did not despise me, but she did take my hand
She taught me the tunes she sang to the Moon.
She taught me to love the Sun and the Rain
She taught me to dream, to smile and to cry
She taught me to love her down by the river
But she did never want to tell me her name…
“The name of your true love is the name of a witch”
That’s what they told me in my mean town
And I as a fool began to believe
That my fair maid cast a love spell on me.
Her long hair was red like a burning flame
Her eyes so deep, in them I could sink
Her song were the strangest I’d ever heard
But I’d been so mad to leave her alone…
When I realized the mistake I made
I went to the river to see my true love
Where once was her house I heard the wind say:
“No more you will find here your Marianne”.
Instead of the green grass I found nude ground
And there were briars where flowers should be.
I was burnt with cold to my very soul
Just when I lost her I knew her name, Marianne.
credits
from Mattino,
released December 31, 2004
Lyrics: Mara Campobasso
Music: Giovanni Mastrangelo, Nicola Cicerale
Mara Campobasso: vocals
Nicola Cicerale: hurdy-gurdy, synth
Giovanni Mastrangelo: electric bass
Fabio Trimigno: violin
Annamaria Bartoccioli: celtic harp
Aldo Grillo: tabla, chimes
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