PART ONE
It was a cold night and the snow lay 'round
I pulled my coat tight against the falling down
And the sun was all, and the sun was all down
And the sun was all, and the sun was all down
I am a poor man, I have not wealth nor fame
I have my two hands and a house to my name
And the winter's so, the winter's so long
And the winter's so, the winter's so long
And all the stars were crashing 'round
As I laid eyes on what I'd found
It was a white crane, it was a helpless thing
Upon a red stain with an arrow in its wing
And it called and cried, it called and cried so
And it called and cried, it called and cried so
And all the stars were crashing 'round
As I laid eyes on what I'd found
My crane wife, my crane wife
My crane wife, my crane wife
Now I helped her and I dressed her wounds
And how I held her beneath the rising moon
And she stood to fly, she stood to fly away
And she stood to fly, she stood to fly away
And all the stars were crashing 'round
As I laid eyes on what I'd found
My crane wife, my crane wife
My crane wife, my crane wife
PART TWO
My crane wife arrived at my door in the moonlight
All star bright and tongue-tied, I took her in
We were married and bells rang sweet for our wedding
And our bedding was ready, when we fell in
Sound the keening bell and see it's painted red
Soft as fontanelle, the feathers in the thread
When all I ever meant to do was to keep you
My crane wife, my crane wife, my crane wife
We were poorly our fortunes fading hourly
And how she loved me, she could bring it back
But I was greedy I was vain and I forced her to weaving
On a cold loom in a closed room, down the hall
Sound the keening bell and see it's painted red
Soft as fontanelle, the feathers in the thread
When all I ever meant to do was to keep you
My crane wife, my crane wife, my crane wife
There's a bend in the wind and it rakes at my heart
There is blood in the thread and it rakes at my heart
It rakes at my heart, heart, heart, heart
Heart, heart, heart, heart, heart, heart, heart, heart, my crane wife
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