Young Charlotte

In a village fifteen miles from home, there's a merry ball tonight
 Although the air is freezing cold our hearts are warm and light
 Long and anxiously she watched till a well-known voice she hears
 And driving up to the cottage door young Charles Wesley appears
 Why Charlotte dear her mother says this blanket around you fold
 It is a dreadful night you know you'll take your death of cold
 "Oh no oh no," young Charlotte says and she laughed like a gypsy queen
 To arrive in blankets muffled up I never would be seen
 And the wind blows cruel, and the wind blows free
 Bring my love back to me
 There's music in the sound of bells as over the hills we go
 What a crackling noise the runners make as they bite the frozen snow
 With faces muffled silently for five long miles they rode
 Until at length with a frozen word young Charles the silence broke
 Such a night as this I never knew my reins I scarce can hold
 Young Charlotte says with a feeble voice I feel exceeding cold
 They rode over the mountain side and through the cold starlight
 Until they entered the village and the ball room came in sight
 And the wind blows cruel, and the wind blows free
 Bring my love back to me
 Driving up young Charles jumps out and gives his hand to her
 Why sit you there like a monument that has no power to stir
 He called her once he called her twice but she uttered not a word
 He called her for her hand again but still she never stirred
 He tore the mantle from her brow and the cold stars on her shone
 And quickly in the lighted room her helpless form was borne
 They tried all means were in their power her life to restore
 But Charlotte was a frozen corpse again to speak no more
 And the wind blows cruel, and the wind blows free
 Bring my love back to me
 They bore her out into the sleigh and Charles with her rode home
 And when they reached her cottage door oh how her parents mourned
 They mourned the loss of their daughter dear
 And Charles mourned for his bride
 Until at length his heart did break and they slumber side by
 And the wind blows cruel, and the wind blows free
 Bring my love back to me
 And the sun will set, and the snow will fall
 Falling down upon us all