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Forty winters cold and dark surround you like a beauty mark

 A tilt of the axis says that time of year

 And the flush of your cheekbones says no damage here

 The first time I saw you twas ice on the ground

 A girl in a green house meant paradise found

For Forty Winters, forty Winters

Forty winters, forty winters

Forty winters straight in line were you not my valentine

Orange Blossom’s Sandalwood Oak Moss and Musk

Fragrant the senses from daylight till dusk

You made the simple life fit for a king

And oatmeal by candle light a beautiful thing

For Forty Winters, forty Winters

Forty winters, forty winters

Why can’t I break the spell shake you and make you well

What is it blinding me that keeps you from finding me

I know you’re in there, you haven’t gone somewhere

God only knows about leaving me frozen out

Darlin’ I can promise you this I wont let you drown in the mist

Forty winters cold and drear could not age you one short year

It’s like your trapped ‘neath a bell jar as big as the earth

And I’m running to reach you for all that I’m worth

I’ll bathe you and feed you and tend to your grace

But don’t make me leave you in such a dark place

I’m drunk on the bitterness sorrow demands

And I know that tomorrow is out of my hands

Until were together I’ll sleep in the snow

I’ll love you forever and that’s all I know about

Forty Winters, forty Winters

Forty winters, forty winters