King David

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[Verse 1]
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King David was a sorrowful man
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No cause for his sorrow had he
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And he called for the music of a 
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hundred harps
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To ease his melancholy
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[Verse 2]
They played till they all fell 
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silent
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Played and play sweet did they
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But the sorrow that haunted the 
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heart of King David
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They could not charm away
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[Verse 3]
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He rose and in his garden
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Walked by the moon alone
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A nightingale hidden in a cypress 
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tree
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Jargoned on and on


[Verse 4]
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King David lifted his sad eyes
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Into the dark-boughed tree
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"Tell me, thou little bird that 
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singest
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Who taught my grief to thee?"
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[Verse 5]
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But the bird in no-wise heeded
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And the king in the cool of the 
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moon
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Hearkened to the nightingale's 
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sorrowfulness
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Till all his own was gone
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