Willow Weep For Me - Ann Hampton Callaway

Oh Lord, why did you send the darkness to me?

Are the shadows forever to be?

Where’s the light I’m longing to see?

Oh Lord, once we met by the old willow tree

Now you’ve gone and left nothing to me

Nothing but a sweet memory

Willow weep for me

Willow weep for me

Bend your branches green

Along the stream that runs to sea

Listen to my plea

Listen willow and weep for me

Gone my lover’s dream

Lovely summer dream

Gone and left me here

To weep my tears into the stream

Sad as I can be

Hear me, willow, and weep for me

BRIDGE

Whisper to the wind

And say that love has sinned

To leave my heart breakin'

And makin' a moan

Murmur to the night

To hide the starry light

So none will find me sighing

And crying all a-lone

Oh, weeping willow tree

Weep in sympathy

Bend your branches down

Along the ground and cover me

When the shadows fall

Bend, oh willow, and weep for me