"Annie Lisle" (circa 1860)
Words and Music
by H. S. Thompson

[NOTE: the song title is referenced (Verse 5) in Stephen
Foster's "The Song of All Songs" (1863); its lyrics were
published in an 1860 copy of "Beadle's Dime Songbooks"]
[Source: photocopy from H. L. Clark]

1. Down where the waving willows
’Neath the sunbeams smile,
Shadow’d o’er the murm’ring waters
Dwelt sweet Annie Lisle;
Pure as the forest lily,
Never tho’t of guile
Had its home within the bosom
Of sweet Annie Lisle.

CHORUS [sung after each verse]
Wave willows, murmur waters,
Golden sunbeams, smile!
Earthly music cannot waken
Lovely Annie Lisle.

2. Sweet came the hallow’d chiming
Of the Sabbath bell,
Borne on the morning breezes
Down the woody dell.
On a bed of pain and anguish
:Lay dear Annie Lisle,
Chang’d were the lovely features,
Gone the happy smile.