Leonora Lyrics

She joins the crowds as the watch with awe

The soldiers marching home from war

They beat the drums and they blow their horns

Victorious they have returned

The children run to their fathers arms

Their wives relieved they're safe from harm

Leonora's joy to anguish turns

Her William has not returned

My child may God look down on thee

Her mother says to sooth her grief

Oh mother! Mother! He is gone

I know not how to carry on

I curse the God whom with wilful malice

Took my sweet William from me

Does he heed my grief? Can he comprehend

Of the pain that he's made me feel?

God please have mercy on this child

And forgive her for this sin

She knows not what she means Lord

As her anguish is so strong within

She hears the steady drum of hooves outside

And then she hears her William's voice

My darling ride away with me tonight

For love our marriage bed awaits

One hundred miles must we ride tonight

Before the first light of the dawn

Our marriage bed has room for both of us

Four sides, a bottom and a lid

So charging onward through the night

The sparks spurt, up the stones run round

And as they hurried through the gates

Her William's armour fell away

Gone were the eyes that she fell in love with,

Gone the lips she longed to kiss

Now stands a morte with a grinning skull,

Draped in a cloak that hangs like mist