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The New Mistletoe Bough
The original folk song about this legend is usually sung at Christmas, but I think it's really appropriate for the wedding season! The legend is that a bride on her wedding day plays hide and seek, hides in a chest, can't get out and is ...never found... I think I know what really happened. And it's got a happy ending if you like revenge.
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The New Mistletoe Bough
This is my Wedding Day,
And we are having such fun,
I've found a chest in the attic,
Up in the tower at Exton.,

You said, let us play hide and seek
We all gladly agreed
But I've been hiding for hours,
And no-one is coming to find me.

Kisses or curses, just look for me now,
Oh the Bough of the Mistletoe,
How can I keep all my wedding vows

I heard voices not far away,
Calling, Oh where can she be,
It will be such a surprise when they
Open the chest and they find me.

Later, I heard my love whisper
I know you're hiding in here,
But I married you for your money
And you can stay locked up for ever.

Kisses or curses...

My wedding dress is now tarnished,
My beauty is over and done,
My life has long been extinguished
Locked in this coffin at Exton

Years came and went as I waited,
Time oh so silently passed,
Then one day, when all seemed forgotten
My love came to me at last...

Kisses or curses...

He said, lifting the lid to see me
'Such a shame, the beauty is dead,
But I have your house and your land
And today I have married again' he said.

But as he turned away laughing
By mischance, by some strange endeavour
He fell,
Down,
Into my arms...
And the lid closed, and we are together.

Kisses and curses, just look at us now
Oh the Bough of the Mistletoe,
Now I can keep all my wedding vows

Kisses and curses, just look at me now...
I may be withered and dead
But welcome at last to
Our
Wedding
Bed.
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