Lorelei lyrics

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

Castles out of fairytales

Timbers shivered where once there sailed

The lovesick men who caught her eye

And no-one knew but Lorelei

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River, river have mercy

Take me down to the sea

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

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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

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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

• Artist:The Pogues
• Album:Peace and Love, 1989