Read the books, sing the songs
Let us rest before night is gone
Awake to that dreadful day
Feel my loves being ripped away

Read the books, sing the songs
Day, night, sunset, dawn
Dream of that dreadful day
When my loves were ripped away

Read the books, sing the songs
10 months - one day long
Sleep the sweet memories away
Of the time my loves did stay

Read the books, sing the songs
Winter, spring, summer's yawn
Tomorrow, I freverently pray
I will awake from that dreadful day