Angelo Branduardi - The stolen bride lyrics

Three long nights and sleep eludes me Wait and watch and listen But all I hear is the viper sliding And hissing along the river There I wrote this song I sing now Darkly dressed with sorrow About the bride who left her wedding Slipped out...none saw none followed. No one saw the extra guest Beguile her to the threshold With smiles and pretty words about the beauty of her dress And persuade her from the feasting So naive she followed him She thought but for a moment We waited her return till the candles burnt away We searched...but none could find her A fiddler present at the wedding Was walking out next morning When the strange guest appeared before him Good day musician said he I know you search for one who's missing Vanished from her wedding If you have a brave heart walk behind me And I will lead you to her A boat as black as fishes bowels He rode 'cross shrowded waters Untill they came upon the waxen bride In a dress of gold and silver She bade the fiddler take her ring Back safe to her beloved And said here I remain and suffer not the world No pain desire or hatred The fiddler took the ring and turning Had hardly walked but one step When he heard a stiffled cry "Forgive me" As the misty waters took her Shining bright as summer light The morning that she married What unholy place was she taken to that day And by what cold of darkness.