Johnny Flynn - Sweet William Pt. 2 lyrics

Will you put down your fiddle, young Willie?
Will you put down your fiddle and pray?
That the world has begun with
The birth of the sun
And it's death, the very same day
"Now kiss me, young lover
" cried Maggie the glover
"We're a village of babes and
I'm over the moon" "Where's all your fellas
Those young buck propellers?" cried Willie
Who swam in the room full of swoon
Will you put down your fiddle, young Willie?
Will you put down your fiddle and pray?
That the world has begun with
The birth of the sun
And it's death, the very same day

Still the fiddle brightly sung
Its hornpipe playing
It's a Londonderry tune
Long gone's the afternoon
We'll sing "Ever and more and ever will be"
The old men he'd seen
All cracked teeth with glee
Brought gold for the boy who
Could carry all time
For they in dear guardianship
Sailing a broken ship
Wizened, had aged in pursuit of the wine

"It's not what I came for!"
Cried Will with disdain for
The din and the clamor of corsets undone
Till a glimpse of perfection
In Sally's reflection
In a mirror that carried her
Light like the sun
Will you put down your fiddle, young Willie?
Will you put down your fiddle and pray?
(Right now) that the world has begun with
The birth of the sun
And it's death, the very same day

With Will in the midst and no heat to desist
The gentrified stock who had
Seen off them all
Sat and laughed at the lad
Seeing all that he had
And whispered their praise to the
Soul of his sword if Will had known better
He'd not have known better
And history's song would have ended with time
So, it's lucky for learning
That history's yearning is not in repeating
But for something that rhymes

Will you pick up your fiddle, young Willie?
(Pick it up)
Will you pick up your fiddle and play
For the world has begun with
The birth of the sun
And it's death the very same day
Still the fiddle brightly sung
Its hornpipe playing
It's a Londonderry tune
Long gone's the afternoon
We'll sing "Ever and more and ever will be"