Long White Veil letra

Every night the dream's the same
Every time I speak her name
Black and shiny eyes appear
In a long white veil

If only I could touch her skin
If only I could lie within
If only I could see her face
'Neath the long white veil
Long white veil

I married her, I carried her
On the very same day I buried her
In the cemetery plot by her mother
Though she never gave a thought to her mother
But she looked so pale
In that long white veil
Long white veil
Long white veil
Long white veil
Long white veil

And how when she fell in with me
I stole her from the canneries
We'd pitch along the harborside
In our wind-filled sails

But now when all the lights go dim
Something starts its crawling in
All I can do is hush and wait
For that long white veil
Long white veil

I married her, I carried her
On the very same day I ferried her
'Cross the channel in the cold, dark water
And in the evening how a chill had caught her
And she looked so pale
In our lateen sails
Like a long white veil
Long white veil
Long white veil
Long white veil

The Decemberists - Letras

• 12/17/12
• 16 By 32
• A Beginning Song
• A Bower Scene
• A Cautionary Song
• All Arise!
• All I Want Is You
• America Made Me
• Angel, Won't You Call Me?
• Annan Water
• Anti-Summersong
• Apology Song
• As I Rise
• Ben Franklin's Song
• Better Not Wake The Baby
• Billy Liar
• Born to the Morning
• Bridges And Balloons
• Burial Ground (feat. James Mercer)
• Calamity Song
• California One
• California One / Youth And Beauty Brigade
• Carolina Low
• Cavalry Captain
• Clementine
• Cocoon
• Constantinople
• Cullin of the Fold
• Dear Avery
• Don't Carry It All
• Don't Go To the Woods
• Down By The Water
• Easy Come, Easy Go
• Eli, The Barrowboy
• Everything I Try To Do, Nothing Seems To Turn Out Right
• Foregone
• From My Own True Love (lost At Sea)
• Grace Cathedral Hill
• Here I Dreamt I Was An Architect
• Human Behavior
• I
• I Don't Mind
• I Was Meant For The Stage
• II
• III
• Isn't It A Lovely Night?
• IV
• January Hymn
• Joan in the Garden
• Julianne
• July, July!
• June Hymn
• Lake Song
• Leslie Anne Levine
• Like A Lion
• Long White Veil
• Los Angeles, I'm Yours
• Make You Better
• Margaret In Captivity
• Mistral
• My Mother Was a Chinese Trapeze Artist
• Never Satisfied
• O Valencia
• O Valencia!
• Oceanside
• Ocenside
• Odalisque
• Of Angels And Angles
• Oh No!
• On The Bus Mall
• Once In My Life
• One Engine
• Philomena
• Please Daddy (Don't Get Drunk This Christmas)
• Record Year
• Red Right Ankle
• Rise To Me
• Riverswim
• Row Jimmy
• Rox In The Box
• Rusalka, Rusalka / Wild Rushes
• Severed
• Shankill Butchers
• Shanty For The Arethusa
• Shiny
• Sixteen Military Wives
• Sleepless
• Song For The Myla Goldberg
• Sons & Daughters
• Sucker's Prayer
• Summersong
• Sunshine
• Tell Me What's on Your Mind
• The Abduction Of Margaret
• The Apology Song
• The Bachelor And The Bride
• The Bagman's Gambit
• The Bandit Queen
• The Black Maria
• The Chimbley Sweep
• The Crane Wife 1 and 2
• The Crane Wife 3
• The Engine Driver
• The Gymnast, High Above The Ground
• The Hazards Of Love (Revenge!)
• The Hazards Of Love 1 (The Prettiest Whistles Won't Wrestle The Thistles Undone)
• The Hazards Of Love 2 (Wager All)
• The Hazards Of Love 4 (The Drowned)
• The Infanta
• The Island
• The Island: Come and See, The Landlord's Daughter, You'll Not Feel the Drow
• The Kingdom Of Spain
• The Landlord's Daughter
• The Legionnaire's Lament
• The Mariner's Revenge Song
• The Perfect Crime 2
• The Queen's Rebuke / The Crossing
• The Rake's Song
• The Reapers
• The Singer Addresses His Audience
• The Soldiering Life
• The Sporting Life
• The Tain (Parts I, II, III, IV, V)
• The Wanting Comes in Waves / Repaid
• The Wrong Year
• This Is Why We Fight
• Till The Water's All Long Gone
• Traveling On
• V
• Valerie Plame
• VI
• We Both Go Down Together
• When the War Came
• Why Would I Now?
• William Fitzwilliam
• Won't Want For Love (Margaret In The Taiga)
• Wonder
• Yankee Bayonet (I Will Be Home Then)
• Youth and Beauty Brigade