LOVER'S LEAP (Lillinonah)
words & music by Bob Brophy & Felicia Michael
There's a ghost of a lady in the lake
By the name of Lillinonah
She was a princess in her day
I wish I could have known her
But her name was Lillinonah was her name
So they called her Lillinonah
She was a native of this land
Who fell in love with an English man
But her daddy didn't understand
And since the old man was the chief, well their courtship it was brief,
And things went bad for Lillinonah
She died with her lover in the Housatonic in the falls at Lover's Leap
It might have gone better had they stayed platonic
Now they'll always be together, but their souls will never sleep
At the bottom of a lake
A lake called Lillinonah
From the top of Pumpkin Hill
When the Autumn leaves are sailin'
In the late October chill
The wind sounds like it's wailin'
My name was Lillinonah, say my name
Sing a song of Lillinonah
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