Fay Hield - The Briar and the Rose

I fell asleep down by a stream

And there I had the strangest dream

And down by Brennan's Glen there grows

A briar and a rose

There's a tree in the forest, I don't know where

I built a nest out of your hair

And climbing high into the air

A briar and a rose

I don't know how long it has been

Since I was born in Brennan's Glen

But near the end of spring there grows

A briar and a rose

I picked a rose one early morn

I pricked my finger on a thorn

They'd grown so close, their winding wove

The briar around the rose

I tried to tear them both apart

I felt a bullet in my heart

And all dressed up in spring's new clothes

The briar and the rose

And when I'm buried and in my grave

Tell me so I may know

Your tears will fall to make love grow

The briar and the rose

And when I'm buried and in my grave

Tell me so I may know

Your tears will fall to make love grow

The briar and the rose