One of those very traditional themes - describing totally bonkers situations ie when this impossible thing happens, then that slightly less impossible thing will follow...Or not. There's always a sub-text of; I never wanted to do it anyway.
Farewell Love, I am leaving
Farewell love, I am leaving
You were only true while the sun shone.
Now I can see your deceiving
Your love was faithful to no-one.
When nettles in the winter bear roses in June
And thorns are heavy laden with cherries red
And oaks bear autumn harvests of shoals of herring
Then will I trust you love, and all you said.
Farewell love
When church bells sound the chase and the red deer sing
And sparrows fish for gold at the water's edge
And country mice say prayers for the traps they spring.....
Farewell love
When doves and hawks make nests in the waves of the sea,
And hares fly up and over the marriage bed,
And mermaids tell their tales of bejewelled sailors....
Farewell love
