Fair Lavender Maidens
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Oh, oh, young lavender maidens
With purple blossoms in your hair
Oh, oh, young lavender maidens
Ye dance without nary a care
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A lad came up from Anvil's salt
To find his sweet lavender maid
And within her heart he was caught
In love with his lavender maid
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Bruma's too cold for such soft stuff
The flowers of lavender maids
In Nibenay they bloom and fluff
The flowers of lavender maids
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From Skingrad's hills, a man, he came
To snare his own lavender maid
Snared him, she did, twas ne'er the same
'Tween him and his lavender maid
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Oh, oh, young lavender maidens
With purple blossoms in your hair
Oh, oh, young lavender maidens
Ye dance without nary a care
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A gent rode here from the great Isle
To seek out a lavender maid
Twas the next week they walked the aisle
To join with his lavender maid
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Girls of this town, they're fair and kind
Known as our lavender maidens
More lovely girls you'll never find
Cheydinhal's lavender maidens
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Out of the south a man struck out
To see his sweet lavender maid
Finding her, he did sing and shout
"I love ye, my lavender maid!"
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Oh, oh, young lavender maidens
With purple blossoms in your hair
Oh, oh, young lavender maidens
Ye dance without nary a care
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This is a song I wrote to be sung in the taverns and inns of the Nibenay region of Cyrodiil. There's a ton of lavender growing up around Cheydinhal in Oblivion and I imagine there still is around the time of Skyrim or the Great War, which is when Ieant for this song to be sung.
A part of it appears in my story Tamriel Tidbits so feel free to go over and have a look!
I wrote the lyrics and I even have a melody, but of course the locations and names all belong to Bethesda.