| Lyrics: | THE GRIESLY BRIDE
"Lie down, my newly married wife;
Lie easy as you can.
You're
young, and ill-accustomed yet
To sleeping with a man."
The snow was deep, the moon
was full
As it shown on the cabin floor.
His young bride rose without a word
And ran
barefoot through the door.
He up and followed, fast and sure,
And an angry man was
he,
But his young bride wasn't e'er in sight,
And only the moon shone
clearly.
He followed her track through the new deep snow,
Calling out loud her
name.
Only the dingoes in the hills
Yowled back at him again.
Then the hair
stood up along his neck
And his angry mind was gone,
For where the two-foot track gave
out,
A four-footed track went on.
Her nightgown lay upon the snow
As it might
on a bed sheet,
And the tracks that led from where it lay
Were never of human
feet.
He first started in to walkin' back,
Then he began to run,
And his quarry
turned all in her track
And hunted him in turn.
An empty bed still waits for
him
As he lies in a crimson tide.
Beware, beware, oh trapper men,
Beware of a griesly
bride.
Words by John Manifold, music by Tom Campbell.
Recorded by
Harry Tuft on "Across the Blue Mountains," copyright
1976 by Folk Legacy Records, FSA-63.
also by Cindy Mangsen
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