Words & Music by Brooke Lunderville, 2008.
This is based on Seanan McGuire's fabulous book by the same title:
seananmcguire.com/rosemary.php
lyrics
The moment I met you, I took a dislike
You were surly and rude; we were too much alike
Now my heart's only wish is to keep faith with you
But all I can offer's rosemary and rue
Rosemary and rue, rosemary and rue
By cut grass and copper, just this can I offer
A lonely bouquet of rosemary and rue.
Like a fool I believed when your green-apple eyes
Proclaimed me a hero in apple-green lies
I gave you my oath that I would help you flee
I promised to save you; instead you saved me
Rosemary and rue, rosemary and rue
By cut grass and copper, just this can I offer
A lonely bouquet of rosemary and rue.
The curse of the evening roses may fade
but your dying glance at me a new curse has laid
It was not I who killed you, but I who betrayed
And I'll count now forever the cost that you paid
Rosemary and rue, rosemary and rue
By cut grass and copper, just this can I offer
A lonely bouquet of rosemary and rue.
By oak, ash and thorn, that is all I can do
credits
from
Steel Cage Match,
released 19 June 2009
Vocals, banjola: Brooke Lunderville
Harmony vocals: Michelle Dockrey
Guitar: John Caspell