Lorelei Lyrics

 (Philip Chevron)  
  
 You told me tales of love and glory
 Same old sad songs, same old story 
 The sirens sing no lullaby
 And no-one knows but Lorelei 
  
 By castles out of fairytales 
 Timbers shivered where once there sailed 
 The lovesick men who caught her eye
 And no-one knew but Lorelei  
  
 River, river have mercy
 Take me down t
For if I perish on these rocks  
 My love no more I'll see  
  
 I've thought of you in far-off places 
 I've puzzled over lipstick traces  
 So help me God, I will not cry  
 And then I think of Lorelei  
  
 I travel far and wander wide 
 No photograph of you beside me  
 Ol' man River's not so shy
 And he remembers Lorelei  
  
 River, river have mercy
 Take me down to the sea
 For if I perish on these rocks  
 My love no more I'll see  
  
 If I should float upon this stream 
 And see you in my madman's dream
 I'd sink into your troubled eyes
 And none would know 'cept Lorelei  
  
 River, river have mercy
 Take me down to the sea
 For if I perish on these rocks  
 My love no more I'll see  
  
 But if my ship, which sails tomorrow  
 Should crash against these rocks,  
 My sorrows I will drown before I die  
 It's you I'll see, not Lorelei