High on a Rocky Ledge (feat. David Byrne)

[00:09.17] High on a rocky ledge lives a mädel, Edelweiss
[00:18.18] Shy as a shadow, lovely as lace, and cold as ice
[00:27.28] High on a rocky ledge, I pledge my love to her
[00:37.30] Every time I climb up to paradise
[00:45.83] How many times have I been up to see her? Goodness knows
[00:55.07] Huffing and puffing, dressed in the warmest climbing coats
[01:04.06] How many chances would be taken in my
[01:13.76] Hopeless pursuit of the Schnee-Mädel-Edelweiss?
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[01:27.21] Then spoke a spirit, "If you would win your lady love
[01:36.04] There's only one way, fall to your death from high above
[01:45.72] You will begin to grow in snow beside the one
[01:55.67] You have waited for to be mated with"
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[02:40.81] Now, I'm an edel, vice to my mädel, Edelweiss
[02:50.25] Dying to be with her, wasn't any sacrifice
[02:59.08] We're so deliriously happy on our ledge
[03:09.63] Where I pledge my love to my lady fair
[03:17.69] So you who are climbing, breathless to see me and my love
[03:27.15] Snow flowers growing fonder on Lover's Ledge above
[03:36.56] If you've the yen to pluck, then pluck us both
[03:45.51] For we who have lived as one wish to die as one
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