The Almond Tree - Hannah Peel

Temperance the dear old deer

Did not dare to bother anyone’s ear

With her uptight jaw and hair tightly pinned

Who’d have thought the sin to be within?

Bury me under the almond tree

If anything should happen to me

Late last june I heard a cry

I ran to see my younger sister die

The poisoned meat had cut deep inside

I cast my revenge on temperance tonight

Bury me under the almond tree

If anything should happen to me

Bury me under the almond tree

If anything should happen to me

I walked for months through the rain and pour

No sign of temperance and her deathly paw

I start to think did I dream it all up

What revenge is this, its my life now that’s been caught

Bury me under the almond tree

If anything should happen to me

Bury me under the almond tree

If anything should happen to me