Crepe Myrtle Lyrics

Crepe myrtle crepe myrtyle your flowers are lovely

You come in the springtime so quiet serene

Your flowers are so white and your boughs are so green

And you make shade for lovers on the grass there beneath

Crepe myrtle crepe myrtle, would a sparrow you lend?

A message t'my mother, on his wings may you send?

Is she and my father still sprite above ground

Or lying 'neath your cold roots n'er weeping ne'r a sound

Crepe myrtle crepe myrtle won't you hear my prayer

And take up my mother soft into your care

May your roots embrace her and send her aloft

To smile from your flowers like an angel of god

And send me a sweet love just like her oh please

And let us fair make love in your petals like snow at your feet

And when I run fingers through Artemis hair

Let my hand fond remember of my mother's braids there

Crepe myrtle crepe myrtle your cousins so fair

The pink and the violet and the orange so rare

But white are the petals in my lover's hair

That speckle like snowflakes fall's ground cold and bare

That dust just like snowflakes on fall's ground cold