There is an album I have been listening to the Decemberists album "The Hazards of Love." The whole album is one complete story complete with different voices! If you wanted to listen to it, you might be able to find the album in 2 parts at this site. I will now attempt to tell you the story of William and Margaret. (In chronological order for ease of understanding)
There was once a boy named William who when he was born put into a clay basket and sent down the Annan River. The Annan river is one serious river! It was super deep, and had raging waters! William was saved by the Evil Queen. In an attempt to make him her own, she made him to be a fawn during the day and a man during the night. Well one day our heroine Margaret goes for a ride and comes across the fawn (William). It was late evening and when she went to go check on it the fawn turned into William! Margaret and William instantly fell in love. Well the evening draws to an end and Margaret goes back home only to realize that she is pregnant. When she begins to show she goes back into the forest to find William. When she does they spend the night again and William goes to his mother (the queen) and asks for her permission to spend the rest of his nights with his one true love Margaret. The Queen then is VERY upset, and says something like: This is how I am repaid!? I saved you from the raging Annan Waters and you want to just ditch me? So William changes his tactics and asks the queen if he can just spend one more night with her. The Queen agrees to this, knowing that William is going to try to take off with Margaret. Enter the Rake. The Rake is a man who got married at the age of 21 and LOVED it until his wife started having tons of babies! On the 4th child however, the wife and the child died. In order to "regain" his old life the Rake decides to kill all of his other children in various ways. The Queen goes to the Rake and says that she can be his as long as they go across the Annan Waters and never return. The Rake of course agrees and the Queen carries the Rake and the captive Margaret across Annan Waters. William however realizing something is amiss begins to track the Rake and his true love. He gets to Annan Waters and realizes he can't cross. He then pleads with the waters asking them to allow him to cross to save his own true love. He says that if they calm they could have his bones on his return. As William is sailing across Annan Waters the Rake is about to have his way with Margaret when all of a sudden his children come back to life to taunt and haunt him! William arrives just in time to save Margaret and escape with her! They get back in the boat and halfway across they start to sink. William in one of his finest moments...the last moments of their lives says to his true love: "Let's be married here today, these rushing waves to bear our witness. And we will lie like river stones rolling only where it takes us. With this long last rush of air we'll speak our vows in starry whisper. And when the saves came crashing down he closed his eyes and softly kissed her.
The End.
Wow. Don't you want to listen to that now!? Seriously it's beautiful.
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