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There is a willow grows aslant a brook,
That shows his hoar leaves in the glassy stream;
There with fantastic garlands did she come
And fell in the weeping brook. Her clothes spread wide;
And, mermaid-like, a while they bore her up:
Which time she chanted snatches of old lauds;
As one incapable of her own distress,
Or like a creature native and indued
Unto that element: but long it could not be
Till that her garments, heavy with their drink,
Pull'd the poor wretch from her melodious lay
To muddy death.

Sing willow, willow, willow;
Sing willow, willow, willow.

Too much of water hast thou, poor Ophelia,
And therefore I forbid my tears.

My mother had a maid call'd Barbara:
She was in love, and he she lov'd prov'd mad
And did forsake her: she had a song of 'willow';
An old thing 'twas, but it express'd her fortune,
And she died singing it: that song to-night
Will not go from my mind;
"Sing all a green willow."

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from A Reason to Change, released June 3, 2022
music: Milo Graamans
lyrics: William Shakespeare (Hamlet IV.vii.163-184; Othello IV.iii.25-30)

Milo Graamans – vocals, piano
Mindy Simon – violin
Adrienne Welsh – cello

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Milo Graamans Newport, Oregon

Pianist and composer, author of the musical "She Loves Me Not".

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