Now and Ever After

'Twas a morning fair when I walked out
Down by Greenwood meadows
Fairies danced in the misty dew
The sun it chased the shadows
By Spencil Hill I chanced to spy
A maid so quite adoring
So sweetly she sang Avondale
It set my hearth a-roving
Love it fell out of the blue
And I went tumbling after
I only want to be with you
For now and ever after
Her hair was black as a ravens wing
Her eyes were deep blue oceans
Skin was purest lily white
She set my heart a roving
Boldly then she took my hand
My love she whispered gently
Come follow me to Avondale
Where you and I shall marry
Like the morning mist she danced her way
Down through Greenwood valley
And in the sky the sun she rose
And chased the nightly shadows
I stopped to pick a rose so red
To give to my true loved one
But when I looked the mist was gone
And so was my lover