Jenny Greenteeth
Down by the rush of the river
A lover with aching heart
Saw jenny there trailing her fingers
And thought she might be his sweetheart.

He stepped over to courteously greet her
And stay awhile, by her leave
And found, with a rush of emotion
Her hand twining into his sleeve.

"I am called by the name of the river
Though as Jenny they know me here.
The waters pour gracefully into this brook;
I swim here but once in the year."

They talked and his gaze fell upon her robe,
As green as the river-weed;
He saw with a start what he took for a gown
Was her long hair wrapped round her side.

"Come into the water and bathe, my love
Come swim in the swirling pool
Come down in the deep with the rocks and the storms
Come swim with me now, my jewel."
[brief instrumental]

Her emerald smiled in the sunlight
And captured his fearful eye
She slid like a seal in the wash of the stream
And he felt the bank slipping by.

No time to cry that he could not swim
No time to draw air in and breathe
With her hair round his ears and filling his mouth
And her long fingers twined in his sleeve.

"Come into the water and bathe, my love
Come swim in the swirling pool
Come down in the deep with the rocks and the storms
Come swim with me now, my jewel."

"Come into the water and bathe, my love
Come swim in the swirling pool
Come down in the deep with the rocks and the boats
You'll swim with me now, sweet food."