G#m            D#m
Ada, my rarest bud from the desert valley
     C#
Your hair of fire and skin of snow
                                             G#m
Have coursed me to the heights of the desert mountains
                 D#m
In search of the cure for a rampant fever
     C#
Your beauty is power, it plagues me now
                                         D#m
I come and scour the land for the desert flower


[Pre-Chorus 1]
    G#m        E                    G#m          F#
For beauty and perfume I'd stake my house and my lands
    G#m              E                    G#m            F#
The gold is sleeping in the river but the flower's in my hand
       G#m              E                  G#m                F#
With a paler leaf and a broken petal, I'll paint the king and queen
    G#m              E                   G#m              F#
And to the goldsmith with my flower I'll buy your wedding ring


[Chorus 1]
G#m      E
Tulip, tulip
     F#             G#m
With one what I did buy
G#m             E
Oxen, sheep and wheat and rye
G#m         F#       G#m
Land on the north seaside
G#m      E
Tulip, tulip
     F#             B
With one what I did buy
    G#m            E
The finest dresses man can buy
      G#m           F#    G#m
And a pearl for to pay my bride


[Verse 2]
G#m                 D#m
Then with my rarest bowl to her father's garden
     C#
Like gold for lamb or wool for clam I gave that man a bowl for his daughter
G#m                D#m
Ada, your heart is mine and it's mine forever
       C#                                                               D#m
And she replied, "my fate that lies on yon horizon's tethered me to the sky"


[Pre-Chorus 2]
    G#m                 E                      G#m        F#
The match arranged, and vows exchanged and the dove flew away
    G#m                   E                G#m           F#
The bells spilled out the hollow canyon on our wedding day
   G#m             E           G#m         F#
To me she gave her hand and to death do us part
        G#m                 E                G#m          F#
But the bird will nest with one that she has promised her heart


[Chorus 2]
G#m      E
Tulip, tulip
     F#             G#m
With one what I did buy
    G#m                E
The bed from which our sons would rise
        G#m     F#        G#m
and the window where she cries
G#m      E
Tulip, tulip
     F#             B
With one what I did buy
  G#m              E
A net to catch the birds that fly
         G#m    F#        G#m
from the window where she cries


[Bridge 1]
G#m
He reaches out and I withdraw
E                      F#              G#m
Spilling the flowering bribes from his paw
    G#m
The broken petals climbing the walls
E                   F#        G#m
Stealing my oxygen, no air at all
G#m
From the bed I hear him call
    E               F#             G#m
But I answer cooing when the night falls
    G#m
The cotton sword is storming the hall
E                    F#          G#m
Cutting my vision to no sight at all


[Verse 3]
G#m                         B
I tied the tulip around her neck
                C#
Like a red lead sinker
    G#m
And blindfold and spin around
And round and round
       C#
To the banks of the river and
G#m
Then walk my true love
B                C#
Into the rushing water
    G#m
And by her long hair, bleeding red
                                          D#m
Hair-pulled my love there under until she drown
C#   F#  G#m
(vocalization)


[Pre-Chorus 3]
    G#m        E                    G#m          F#
For beauty and perfume I'd stake my house and my lands
    G#m             E                    G#m            F#
My love is sleeping in the river but the flower's in my hand
       G#m              E                  G#m             F#
With a paler leaf and a broken petal, I'll keep her all to me
    G#m          E                   G#m               F#
And to the river with my flower I'll hear my true love sing


[Bridge 2]
G#m
Your water is still in my friend
Ready to drown
G#m
Water, water oh water my kin
Carry me out
     G#m
This Eine river is mercy at last
Die as she laughs for
G#m
He's waiting with a dove's nest
     C#
My true love


[Chorus 3]
G#m      E
Tulip, tulip
     F#             G#m
With one what I did buy
    G#m            E
A veil that parted o'er my bride
        G#m           F#     G#m
And the blue from the bluest eye
G#m      E
Tulip, tulip
     F#             B
With one what I did buy
    G#m            E
A veil that parted o'er my bride
         G#m         F#        G#m
And the breath as my true love died
G#m      E
Tulip, tulip
     F#               G#m
With one what I would buy
    G#m            E
A veil that parted o'er my bride
        G#m           F#     G#m
And the blue from the bluest eye
G#m      E
Tulip, tulip
     F#             B
With one what I did buy
    G#m            E
A veil that parted o'er my bride
         G#m         F#    G#m    E     F#
And the breath as my true loooooooooooooove
G#m
Died