The Frozen Girl Testo

Young charlotte lived by the mountainside
In a wild and lowly spot
Not a dwelling house for 5 miles around
Except her father's cot.

On many pleasant winters night
Young folks would gather there
Her father kept a social house
And she was young and fair.
Her father liked to see her dressed
As fine as a city belle
For she was the only child that he had
And he loved his daughter well.

It was New Years Eve the sun was low
Joy beamed in her bright blue eyes
As to the window she would go
And watch the sleighs pass by

It was New Years Eve the sun was low,
Joy beamed in bright blue eyes
She watched until her true loves sleigh
Came swiftly riding by.

In a village 15 miles away
There's a merry ball tonight
The piercing air is cold as death
But her heart was warm and bright.
“O daughter dear” her mother said
“This blanket around you fold
It's a dreadful night to go abroad and
You'll catch your death of cold”

“Oh no oh no!” the daughter said
And she laughed like a gypsy queen
“For to ride in a sleigh all bundled up
I never shall be seen”

“My silken coat it is quite warm
It's lined throughout you know
Besides I have a silken scarf
Which around my neck ill throw”

Her cloak and bonnet soon were on
And they stepped into the sleigh
And around the mountain side they went
For many miles away

There's life in the sound of the merry bells
As over the hills they go
What a creaking sound the runners make
As they bite the frozen snow

With muffled faces silently
Over 5 long miles they passed
Till Charlie with these frozen words
The silence broke at last

“Such a night as this I never knew
These lines I scarce can hold”
And charlotte said in a very feeble voice
“I'm growing very cold”

He cracked his whip he urged his steed
Much faster than before
“Saying its ten long dreadful miles to go
And it's over ice and snow”

“How fast” Charles said “the frosty ice
Keeps gathering on my brow”
And charlotte said in a very feeble voice
“I'm growing warmer now”

And on they ride through the frosty air
And the glittering cold starlight
Until at last the village inn
And the ballroom are in sight

He drove up to the ballroom door
Stepped out and reached his hand
He asked her once he asked her twice
But she said not a word

“Why sit you there like a monument?”
“Within is power to stir!”
He called her by her name again
Still she said not a word

He took her hand in his oh God
It was cold and hard as stone
He tore the mantle from her brow
And there the cold stars shone

And the into the lighted hall
Her lifeless form he bore
Charlotte was a frozen corpse
And words spoke never more

Young Charles now down by her side
And the bitter tears they flow
My own my true intended bride
I never more shall know

He twinned his arms around her neck
And the bitter tears they flow
And his thoughts turned back to the place where she said
“I'm growing warmer now.”