The Rhine

Somewhere over the Rhine
 I saw her passing the time
 Picking blackberries on the vine
 And from the top of that hill
 I could see the city lights standing still
 Where all her blackberry blood was spilled
 Into the river, out to the sea
 Her heart delivered the poison to me
 Hours pass by the chime
 Cathedrals keep us in line
 For the altar where her blood runs red wine
 Jesus was getting his fill at the party
 Girls and god's will
 Throwing all of Simon's dollar bills
 Into the river, up on the cross
 Take from the giver, count it all loss
 My brother having a beer
 And driving the car just like everyone feared
 When the tire hit the curb and in the rearview the guard-rail disappeared
 Into the river, deep in the Rhine
 Oh how he shivered, the day that he died
 (it haunts me that you never heard this song)
 
 Somewhere over the Rhine
 I saw her passing the time
 Picking blackberries on the vine
 And from the top of that hill
 I could see the city lights standing still
 Where all her blackberry blood was spilled
 Into the river, out to the sea
 Her heart delivered the poison to me
 Hours pass by the chime
 Cathedrals keep us in line
 For the altar where her blood runs red wine
 Jesus was getting his fill at the party
 Girls and god's will
 Throwing all of Simon's dollar bills
 Into the river, up on the cross
 Take from the giver, count it all loss
 My brother having a beer
 And driving the car just like everyone feared
 When the tire hit the curb and in the rearview the guard-rail disappeared
 Into the river, deep in the Rhine
 Oh how he shivered, the day that he died
 (it haunts me that you never heard this song)