Your long golden hair is worth more than all of the diamonds in the richest mine Or all the pearls in all the necklaces, all of the necklaces put in a line But as you bathe in this sunlit dream you know that nothing is what it seems Your long golden hair is worth more than the gold all the gold in the mines richest seams Or all the countless hours the dreams that poets do dream Your long golden hair will lie with your corpse buried in the pure white snow Your long golden hair will continue toeven when you soul does go