Rusalka Rusalka Wild Rushes

Dm Bb C9 G Dm Bb C9 G F E Dm Bb Rusalka, Rusalka your arms out of water C9 G Your hair like an alien bloom Dm Bb Dark-eyed Rusalka, your brow tressed in flowers C9 G Pale in a liminal moon Dm Bb C9 G G F E And all that you are is a star on the water Dm Bb C9 G F E Dm Bb When first I went swimming, I heeded no warning C9 G And dared breach your rippling pool Dm Bb As I lulled and lingered, the ring slipped my finger C9 G And drifted down the deepening cool Dm Bb C9 G G F E And all that I want is to fall in your shallows Dm Bb C9 G F E Dm Bb And now we are wed, the water our bed C9 G And bank to bank property lake Dm Bb And you are my wild-eyed rusalka, my river bride C9 G Drag me down, take me away Dm Bb C9 G Dm And here we will lie, you and I, 'neath the cold, dark sky Dm Bb C9 G F E D C9 D D C9 D Beware the wild rushes, my mother told me D C9 D That grow on the banks side along the salt sea C9 D C9 D But I being young, I heeded her none D C9 D So to the wild rushes the wind carried me D C9 D The summer was here and the sun it was high D C9 D And to the wild rushes I came by and by C9 D C9 D And there took my seat and dipped in my feet D C9 D And through the wild rushes, a voice sweetly cried: G D Ahhh D C9 D Come down, my little darling, come closer to me D C9 D The water is warm; it is salty and free C9 D C9 D I long for your touch but I won't ask too much D C9 D And I, being foolish, walked in to my knees D C9 D Come down, little darling, and lay at my breast D C9 D Oh come a little closer and I'll do the rest C9 D C9 D I waited so long for a lover to come D C9 D And I, being foolish, walked in to my chest G D Ahhh G D Ahhh D C9 D Come down, my little darling, oh farther come in D C9 D For deeper the water, the sweeter the sin C9 D C9 D My lily lies here, if you'd only draw near D C9 D And I, being foolish, went in to my chin D C9 D Oh come, my little darling, do you feel my cool breath? D C9 D Do you feel my arms around you so warm and so wet? C9 D C9 D Swept from my feet, she pulled me beneath D C G And in the wild rushes, I went to my death