How did the weeping willow get it's name? |
Weeping Willow CHORUS Weeping willow, weeping willow, where does she get her name Weeping willow, weeping willow weeps again and again The walls of Jerusalem had been thrown to the ground The smoke of her destruction rolled like a thick black cloud The hordes of Babylon rolled with a thunderous shaking sound As the city burned to the ground, as the city burned to the ground CHORUS The cries of her children filled her streets, while sorrow fell like rain The blood of her princes spilled out like wine upon the drain The wailing of her desperate mothers, as her children were led away in chains Her Fathers and her fatherless restrained, 2x CHORUS silence like leopards creeped through her empty bloodstained streets Her priest have all been silenced while her weeping prophets weeps The blanket of darkness had fallen upon her bruised and battered cheeks Jerusalem in pain-filled horror Shrieked 2x CHORUS By the rivers of Babylon, they sat and wept grieving for their homeland They hung their harps upon the willow trees, as her capturers demanded Joyous songs of victory, their grieving hearts could not withstand it They ached to see homeland once again 2x Did you ever wonder where the weeping willow got is name? She wept for Jerusalem's fallen glory, and her mournful shame For her sons and her daughters now slaves of Babylonia's domain as long as injustice remains she'll weep again and again as long as injustice remains she'll weep again and again CHORUS. |