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Music © 2008 Milo Graamans
Lyrics taken from William Shakespeare's "Hamlet" (IV.vii.163-5,172-80,183-4) and "Othello" (IV.iii.25-30,39,41)

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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
'Til that her garments, heavy with their drink
Pulled 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 called Barbara
She was in love and he she loved proved mad
And did forsake her

She had a song of willow
An old thing 'twas
But it expressed her fortune and she died singing it
That song tonight will not go from my mind
"Sing all a green willow"

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from Milo Graamans (Live), released October 8, 2016

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Milo Graamans Newport, Oregon

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

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