What are the words to a song The Linden tree as sung by the New London Chorale?

Answer 1

The New London Chorale - The Linden Tree Upon a distant hillside there stands a linden tree. As children we would play there my friends and you and me. We thought that it would never end for children never see. We thought that we would always play around the linden tree, around the linden tree. One day your eyes were misty as eyes can sometimes be. You told me that you loved me beside the linden tree. I thought you'd always be around for lovers never see. I thought our children soon would play around the linden tree, around the linden tree. But then the Trumpet sounded and love was not to be. The call to death or glory took you away from me. You thought that you would never die for soldiers never see. But we will never meet again beneath the linden tree, beneath the linden tree. And now I lay my flowers beside the linden tree.

Answer 2

There sat upon a linden tree

A bird who sang its strain

So sweet it sang that as I watched

My heart went back again.

It went to one remembered spot

I saw the rose tress grow.

And thought again the thoughts of love

Once cherished long ago

A thousand years to me it seems

Since by my fair I state

Yes thus it has been a stranger long

It was not my choice, but fate's

Since then I have not seen the flowers

Nor heard that birds sweet song.

My joys have all too briefly passed

My grief been all too long.