Just finished this and thought I'd post it here. Thanks for listening.
Enter My Keep
Lyrics - Donna Devine
Music production and Vocals - Billy Playle
V1
A serving wench lays rushes
On the floor of hardened earth
A fire’s burning fiercely
In the Great Hall’s open hearth
V2
An axe-hewn oaken table
Heaped with spicéd wine and meat
Stands ready for the nobles
At the Royal Wedding feast
Pre-chorus
In a secret chamber, and growing insane
A woman is calling and calling again
Chorus
I’m Queen of the Castle
She screams in a fit
His woman, his bride
His virgin, his witch
My heart was his own
To love and to cherish
But he threw me down
To a dungeon to perish
I weep and I weep
Yet I’ll still bid him welcome
To enter my keep
V3
M’Lord bows to M’Lady
Leads her slowly to the throne
Past tapestries from Arras
Hiding damp on walls of stone
V4
Oh soon he’ll go a’warring
Leave his bride to pray and sew
An ermine cloak to comfort
For she fears the truth she knows
Pre-chorus
In a secret chamber, and growing insane
A woman is calling and calling again
Chorus
I’m Queen of the Castle
She screams in a fit
His woman, his bride
His virgin, his witch
My heart was his own
To love and to cherish
But he threw me down
To a dungeon to perish
I weep and I weep
Yet I’ll still bid him welcome
To enter my keep
Bridge
Once a lady-in-waiting, in velvet and rings
M’Lady’s own favourite
And also the King’s
Chorus
I’m Queen of the Castle
She screams in a fit
His woman, his bride
His virgin, his witch
My heart was his own
To love and to cherish
But he threw me down
To a dungeon to perish
I weep and I weep
Yet I’ll still bid him welcome
To enter my keep
© 2013 Donna Devine