Lyrics Anna Lee - Seth Lakeman , Wildwood Kin

Listen now children, a story I'll tell of a woman they called Anna Lee,
She had a fine son, she raised him up well and a daughter who's lovely as she.

I'll return to you dear, at the dimming of day as the sparrow returns to her nest,
I'll return to you dreaming with each lullaby, hold your sweet weary head to my breast.

She sang to her darlings a sweet lullaby as the cool evening shadows grow long,
Angels and nightingales gather at night just to hear mother Anna Lee's song.

I'll return to you dear, at the dimming of day as the sparrow returns to her nest,
I'll return to you dreaming with each lullaby, hold your sweet weary head to my breast.

I heard it one morning she rode into town to tend to her dear sister there,
She kissed her two babies on check and on brow and left them without any care.

The wind it did rise, the rain it did fall and the river, a shadowy wave,
Well Anna Lee never heard danger's dark call and was swept to her watery grave.

I'll return to you dear, at the dimming of day as the sparrow returns to her nest,
I'll return to you dreaming with each lullaby, hold your sweet weary head to my breast, hold you sweet weary head to my breast.