ANNABEL LEE
Anita Kerr; Edgar Allan Poe
(Recorded 22 March 1961)


It was many and many a year ago, in a kingdom by the sea,
that a maiden there lived whom you may know, by the name of Annabel Lee.

And this maiden, she lived with no other thought than to love, and be loved by, me.
I was a child and she was a child, in this kingdom by the sea.

But we loved with a love that was more than love, I and my Annabel Lee:
With a love that the winged seraphs of Heaven coveted her and me.
And this was the reason that long ago, in this kingdom by the sea,
a wind blew out of a cloud - chilling my beautiful Annabel Lee.

So that her highborn kinsmen came and bore her away from me,
to shut her up in a sepulchre, in this kingdom by the sea.
The angels, not half so happy in Heaven, went envying her and me,
Yes. That was the reason, as all men know, in this kingdom by the sea.

That the wind came out of a cloud by night - chilling, and killing,
my beautiful Annabel Lee.

But our love,
it was stronger by far than the love
of those who were older than we;
of many who were wiser than we.

And neither the angels in Heaven above, nor the demons down under the sea
can ever dissever my soul from the soul of the beautiful Annabel Lee.

For the moon never beams
without bringing me dreams
of the beautiful Annabel Lee

And the stars never rise,
but I feel the bright eyes
of the beautiful Annabel Lee.

And so, all the night time I lie down by the side
of my darling, my darling, my life, and my bride,
in the sepulchre there by the sea,
in her tomb, by the sounding sea.


(Very interesting rhyme scheme:
Verse 1: a,a,a,a; Verse 2: a,a,a,a; Verse 3: a,a,a,a; Verse 4: a,b;
Verse 5: a,a,b,b; Verse 6: a,a,b,b; Verse 7: a,a,b; Verse 8: a,a,b;
Verse 9: a,a,b,b.)



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