Sweet Sister Temperance

Lyrics

Sweet Sister Temperance She of the model-hearted innocence So eloquent and immune to despair Her tears smooth bands of reddish hair Why subtle for a She fainted while baking in the kitchen Overturning all her merry schemes For great and small and all things in between For future and happiness In a blue field violence For her glory and her power She found in her final hour Great and small and all in between Sweet Sister Temperance She of the model-hearted innocence So eloquent and immune to despair Her tears smooth bands of reddish hair One can see the consequence Of her endless virtue is penitence In a scarlet letter all her tailored deed Her tears smooth bands of reddish hair All defeated I should cry the memory All defeated I should cry the memory We had just laid out the garden Handsome more so now than ever And exquisite cleanness showing In diamond square She kept us enraptured Gently captured by her tender emotion Wildflowers growing, we strode a moonlit path In silent pairs Sweet Sister Temperance She of the model-hearted innocence So eloquent and immune to despair Her tears smooth bands of reddish hair One can see the consequence Of her endless virtue is penitence In a scarlet letter all her tailored deed Her tears smooth bands of reddish hair In a scarlet letter all her tailored deed Her tears smooth bands of reddish hair Oh this soon Oh this soon Oh this soon Oh this soon Oh this soon Oh this soon