Name: The Two Sisters
Duration: P00H04M49S
Description: There are some wild versions of this song out there, apparently some of the most original ending with the younger sister's hair and bones being made into an instrument that sings of the older's treachery. This is definitely a more demure/contemporary interpretation that hews pretty close to a version by Tom Waits on his Orphans album.

The Two Sisters

from Crossroads of Galahad by Austin Moffa

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There are some wild versions of this song out there, apparently some of the most original ending with the younger sister's hair and bones being made into an instrument that sings of the older's treachery. This is definitely a more demure/contemporary interpretation that hews pretty close to a version by Tom Waits on his Orphans album.

lyrics

There was an old woman lived on the sea shore
bow and balance to me
there was an old woman lived on the sea shore
her number of daughters was one, two, three, four
and I'll be true to my love if my love will be true to me

There was a young man who came courting them
The oldest one got struck on him

He gave the youngest a beaver hat
The older one got mad at that.

O sister, O sister let's walk the seashore
and watch the ships as they sail oer

While these two sisters were walking the shore
the oldest pushed the youngest oer

O sister, O sister please lend me your hand
and you will have Willie and all of his land

I never, I never will lend you a hand
but I will have Will and all of his land

Sometime she sank and sometime she swam
until she came to the old mill dam

The miller got his fishing net
and fished the maiden out with it

O miller, O miller here's five gold rings
to push the maiden in again

The miller received those five gold rings
and pushed the maiden in again

the sister was hung on the gallows high
and the miller burned at the stake nearby

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from Crossroads of Galahad, released May 3, 2021
Guitar and Vocals - Austin Moffa
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Austin Moffa Fairfax, Virginia

Austin Moffa is a musician based out of Fairfax, VA. He has previously released 10 industrial/ambient albums under the pseudonym "ROZKOL". Moffa was born and grew up in a small Pennsylvanian town along the Allegheny Mountain Range.

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