The briar and the rose
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1. I fell asleep down by a stream,
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and
there I had the strangest dream.
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and
down by Brennan's Glenn there grows a briar and a rose.
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There's a tree in the forest
and I don't know where,
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I built a nest out of your
hair,
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and
climbing up into the air, a briar and a rose.
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2. Well, I don't know how long it's been,
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but I
was born in Brennan's Glenn,
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and
near the end of spring there grows the briar and the rose.
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I picked the rose one early morn, I pricked my finger on a thorn,
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they'd
grown so close their winding wove, the briar and the rose.
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D7
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3. I tried to tear them both apart, I felt a
bullet through my heart,
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and
all dressed up in spring’s new clothes, the briar and the rose.
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D
And when I'm buried and in my
grave, tell me, so I may know,
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D G C G D
Em
your
tears may fall to make love grow, the briar and the rose.
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And when I'm buried and in my
grave, tell me, so I may know,
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G
your
tears may fall to make love grow, the briar and the rose.
(orig. = capo 4th) (Celtic
Wonder)