You wore that black that sad sad black
To remind you what you don't get back
Days and nights in that mourning dress
For those who died by the Glen Rowan track

So fall to those knees those pretty knees
Dan is dead so beg pretty please
You put on that dress that pretty green dress
To plead for the life of your brother Ned

Your brother Ned your brother Ned
To plead for the life of your brother Ned

She's there and gone she's all on her own
With a heart in pieces and a cold wind blown
In a wild west shore she'll ride tomorrow
Far from Greta where the bitterness still grows

So close eyes those pretty blue eyes
No more tomorrows no more disguise
Dress her in that dress that pretty green dress
And drown her sorrow in that river of lies

River of lies cold lies
Drown her sorrow in that river of lies