Goodninght Tender – Amy Ray

Goodnight sweet Tender the veil is on the loom

The coyotes are yippee yi yaying

They sing a lonesome tune

All of my life I’m a-rambling so you’re in my stead

I like awake and wonder at every bedtime tale

So keep the coals a-glowing

And keep my true love dreaming

Goodnight

I met a man wandering down in Harbortown

He begged from me a dollar

He drank the dollar down

He said I am a sailor swallowed by the war

A soldier drenched and salty cast back to the shore

And now I’m good for nothing except to drink and dream

Goodnight sweet Tender the veil is on the loom

The coyotes are yippee yi yaying

They sing a lonesome tune

All of my life I’m a-rambling so you’re in my stead

I like awake and wonder at every bedtime tale

So keep the coals a-glowing and keep my true love dreaming

Goodnight

I met a maiden widowed in a coalman’s town

She said once I had a true love then came the mountain down

And all my relations swallowed by the mines

We worked for the nickels when we needed dimes

They fed us for a while but took us before our time

Goodnight the veil is on the loom

The coyotes are yippee yi yaying they sing a lonesome tune

And I’ll like awake and wonder at every bedtime tale

Goodnight