Amy Ray - Goodnight Tender lyrics

Goodnight sweet Tender, the veil is on the loom The coyotes are yippee yi yaying, they sing a lonesome tune All of my life I’m a-rambling so you’re in my stead I like awake and wonder at every bedtime tale So keep the coals a-glowing and keep my true love dreaming Goodnight sweet Tender, goodnight I met a man wandering down in Harbortown He begged from me a dollar, he drank the dollar down He said I am a sailor swallowed by the war a soldier drenched and salty cast back to the shore And now I’m good for nothing except to drink and dream Goodnight sweet Tender, the veil is on the loom The coyotes are yippee yi yaying, they sing a lonesome tune All of my life I’m a-rambling so you’re in my stead I like awake and wonder at every bedtime tale So keep the coals a-glowing and keep my true love dreaming Goodnight sweet Tender, goodnight I met a maiden widowed in a coalman’s town She said once I had a true love then came the mountain down And all my relations swallowed by the mines We worked for the nickels when we needed dimes They fed us for a while but took us before our time Goodnight sweet Tender ,the veil is on the loom The coyotes are yippee yi yaying, they sing a lonesome tune And I’ll like awake and wonder at every bedtime tale Goodnight, goodnight