Stay with Me

And will you stay with me

Past the turning of the autumn leaves

Will you let me be your wife

And when the cows have died

And the moon hangs her head up in the sky

Will you tend the loom of time

Or will you let the thread fall at your heel

The silken shadows steal across the field

Or will you let the windows down the draft

Come creeping in?

Or will you in the morning wake and rise

And stretch your brow across the waking skies

And will you work and tend the walls of love

We’re living in?

My husband stay with me

The crops will turn the garden go to seed

Unless you let me be your wife