Name: The Briar And The Rose
Duration: 4 min 25 s
Channel: Tom Waits
Description: From Bow Triplets' new CD 'Fair Play to You', audio release in August 2006. By Tom Waits.

Album $13

From Bow Triplets' new CD 'Fair Play to You', audio release in August 2006. By Tom Waits.

ballads folk songs celtic irish fiddle bluegrass world reels jigs riverdance bow triplets uilleann pipes brendan wade

Bow Triplets

Very Celtic music played by a dedicated Band. Traditional songs and tunes plus original compositions combining their own multinational backgrounds whith the Cel

Band members: Heidi Sigfalk (violin, viola, guitar, voice), Stef Sigfalk (guitar, fiddle, mandolin, banjo, concertina, voice), Andreas Aeppli (bodhran, percussion, voice), Brendan Wade (uillean pipes, whistles, guitar, voice).

Song Info

Genre

Acoustic • Acoustic Folk

Charts

Peak #12

Peak in subgenre #2

Author

Tom Waits

Rights

paid for via SUISA

Uploaded

July 03, 2006

Track Files

MP3

MP3 6.1 MB • 192 kbps • 4:25

Story behind the song

Tom Waits’ famous, smokey and rough voice
stands in exciting contradiction to the sweet
lyrics of his song “The Briar And The Rose”.
Here sung by Heidi, the song gets a face that
puts us, as listeners, in a different landscape.
We enjoy this “dreamy” touch and hope that
you will too.

Lyrics

The Briar and The Rose (Thomas Alan Waits)   

I fell asleep down by a stream
and there I had the strangest dream
and down by Brennan's Glenn there grows
a briar and a rose

There's a tree in the forest and I don't know where
I built a nest out of your hair
and climbing up into the air
a briar and a rose

Well I don't know how long it's been
but I was born in Brennan's Glenn
and near the end of spring there grows
a briar and a rose

I picked the rose one early morn
I pricked my finger on a thorn
they'd grown so close their winding wove
the briar and the rose

I tried to tear them both apart
I felt a bullet in my heart
and all dressed up in springs new clothes
the briar and the rose

2x And when I'm buried and in my grave 
tell me that, so I will know
your tears may fall to make them grow
the briar and the rose

…your tears will fall to make love grow
the briar and the rose