The Briar and the Rose lyrics

I fell asleep down by a stream And there I had the strangest dream And down by Brennan's Glenn there grows The briar and the rose There's a tree in the forest and I don't know where I built a nest out of your hair And climbing up into the air The briar and the rose Well I don't know how long it's been But I was born in Brennan's Glenn And near the end of spring there grows The briar and the rose I picked a rose one early morn I pricked my finger on a thorn They had grown so close it's winding wove The briar and the rose I tried to tear them both apart I felt a bullet through my heart And all dressed up in springs new clothes The briar and the rose And when I'm buried and in my grave Tell me so I may know Your tears may fall to make love grow The briar and the rose And when I'm buried and in my grave Tell me so I may know Your tears may fall to make love grow The briar and the rose