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Words and tune by April Grant (c) 2020
Where are you bound, bonny bride?
Where are you bound on the cold hillside?
I’m bound to the hollow and all alone,
The moon shines up from under a stone,
Among the thorns and briars.
What do you hunt, bonny bride?
What do you hunt on the cold hillside?
Tonight, tonight it is my plan
To kill the wolf that killed a man,
Among the thorns and briars.
What will you give, bonny bride?
What will you give on the cold hillside?
The one I love the most of all,
I’ll give up for the wolf’s downfall,
Among the thorns and briars.
What’s at your feet, bonny bride?
What’s at your feet on the cold hillside?
The best young man in all our town,
Below the tree he lies cut down,
Among the thorns and briars.
What have you done, bonny bride?
What have you done on the cold hillside?
I killed a wolf for his sweet sake
And no more harm will it give or take,
Among the thorns and briars.
What will you do, bonny bride?
What will you do on the cold hillside?
Even the river flows to sea,
One day grief will be done with me,
Among the thorns and briars.
Where will you go, bonny bride?
Where will you go on the cold hillside?
I’ll walk a long and thorny way,
The moon is down, go home and pray,
Among the thorns and briars.
Notes:
This song is my homage to Universal Pictures’ “The Wolf Man” (1941) and its underappreciated remake/re-imagining from 2010.