THE GRIESLY BRIDE
"Lie down, my newly married wife;
Lie easy as you can
You're young, and ill-accustomed yet
To sleeping with a man"
The snow was deep, the moon was full
As it shown on the cabin floor
His young bride rose without a word
And ran barefoot through the door
He up and followed, fast and sure,
And an angry man was he,
But his young bride wasn't e'er in sight,
And only the moon shone clearly
He followed her track through the new deep snow,
Calling out loud her name
Only the dingoes in the hills
Yowled back at him again
Then the hair stood up along his neck
And his angry mind was gone,
For where the two-foot track gave out,
A four-footed track went on
Her nightgown lay upon the snow
As it might on a bed sheet,
And the tracks that led from where it lay
Were never of human feet
He first started in to walkin' back,
Then he began to run,
And his quarry turned all in her track
And hunted him in turn
An empty bed still waits for him
As he lies in a crimson tide
Beware, beware, oh trapper men,
Beware of a griesly bride

Words by John Manifold, music by Tom Campbell
Recorded by Harry Tuft on "Across the Blue Mountains," copyright
1976 by Folk Legacy Records, FSA-63
also by Cindy Mangsen
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