By Joanna Newsom (2006)
On album Ys (2006)

…in bricks of wet smoke
My sleeping heart woke, and my waking heart spoke
Then there was a silence you took to mean something
"Run, sing…
…there grows a bitter herb
That blooms but one day a year, by the riverside, I'd bring it here
Apply it gently to the love you've lent me
While…
…and hollyhock awkwardly molt along the shore
Are you mine?
My heart?
Mine anymore?
Stay with me for awhile, that's…

…a remedy derived from the bark of a willow tree
A painkiller that's virtually side-effect free
It's got a weird name, Darling, what…
…has died and telling her you're in touch with the other side?
I think that's fundamentally sick
Do we need to clarify here that…
…the dead would wanna talk to pricks like John Edward?
Storm to her credit despite my derision keeps firing off clichés with…

Say a prayer for the cowboy
His mare's run away
And he'll walk til he finds her
His darling, his stray…
…all night
He tracks her all day
Oh, blind to her presence
Except to compare
His injury here
With her punishment…
…darling says:
"Leonard, just let it go by
That old silhouette
On the great western sky"
So I pick out…

Say a prayer for the cowboy
His mare's run away
And he'll walk til he finds her
His darling, his stray…
…all night
he tracks her all day
Oh blind to her presence
except to compare
his injury here
with her punishment…
…darling says
'Leonard, just let it go by
That old silhouette
on the great western sky'
So I pick out a tune
and they move right along
and they're gone like the smoke
and they're gone like this song…
By Rod Stewart (2009)
On album Soulbook (2009)

…crazy.
When I'm with you woman,
My whole life seems so hazy.
Ah, don't you know that.
[jeff] baby when you walk, you shake just…
…like a willow tree.
Ah, yes you do darling,
Every time I see ya? oh!
[jeff] baby when you walk you know what, you shake just like a willow…
…tree.
No, I know, I know, I know.
[jeff] oo-eee baby, you sure look so good to me.
Come on babe ... yes I know ... yeah…

…
When I'm with you woman,
My whole life seems so hazy.
Ah, don't you know that.
(Jeff) Baby when you walk, you shake just like a willow…
…tree.
Ah, yes you do darling,
Every time I see ya' Oh!
(Jeff) Baby when you walk you know what, you shake just like a willow…
…tree.
No, I know, I know, I know.
(Jeff) Oo-eee baby, you sure look so good to me.
Come on babe ... Yes I know ... Yeah
Baby when…

…in bricks of wet smoke —
My sleeping heart woke, and my waking heart spoke
Then there was a silence you took to mean something:
Mean, Run, sing…
…explain them to me —
Released
From their hairless and blind cavalry
With your hands in your pockets
Stubbily running
To where I'm unfresh…
…the bough breaks, what'll you make for me?
A little willow cabin to rest on your knee
What'll I do with…

…in the woods.
A loaf of bread, please-
To bring my poor old hungry
Granny in the woods...
Just a loaf of bread, please...
[STEPMOTHER]
Cinderella, if you can…
…have the rampion-
I'd lots to spare.
In return, however,
I said, "Fair is fair:
You can let me have the baby
That your wife…
…mine now!
And you'll never find her,
Small price to pay for what
Else your father stole from me.
It cost me my youth, my beauty…

HOOD]
I wish...
It's not for me,
It's for my Granny in the woods.
A loaf of bread, please-
To bring my poor old hungry
Granny…
…
It cost me my youth, my beauty.
My mother warned me,
She would punish me
With the curse of ugliness,
If I ever lost any…
…]
Now may I go to the Festival?
[STEPMOTHER]
The Festival-?
Darling, those nails!
Darling, those clothes!
Lentils are one thing but
Darling, with…

…
For he will be unto me a god forever; his altar
Oftentimes shall imbue a tender lamb from our sheepfolds.
He, my heifers to…
…
Often this evil to me, if my mind had not been insensate,
Oak-trees stricken by heaven predicted, as now I remember;
Often…
…me in my inertness,
After the time when my beard fell whiter front me in shaving,—
Yet she looked upon me, and came to me after…

…down this old trail. How ya all anyhow?
Fellas, you see, I still have this old cigar box with me. Yes Sir!
And better yet, all…
…there in silence, dishearted
These words to her lover did go
Dear Jack, you mistrusted your darling
You said that my love wasn't…
…fast away
Please grant a last wish, boys, and lay me
Out West on that old Rio Grande
Neath that old willow tree in the churchyard
By my sweetheart, the Blue Velvet Band…

…sings to thee,
Sings with joy when thou art near me,
As the sighing, singing branches
In the pleasant Moon…
…the way of smiling
When thou art no longer near me!
"I myself, myself! behold me!
Blood of my beating heart, behold me!
Oh awake…
…make his bows and arrows,
How to make the bows of ash-tree,
And the arrows of the oak-tree.
So among the guests assembled
At my…

…was calling it a day,
When I heard a voice that sang a sad refrain:
'Oh, my darling Armadillo,
Let me tell you of my love…
…
Listen to my Armadillo roundelay;
Be my fellow on my pillow,
Underneath this weeping willow,
Be my darling Armadillo all the day.'
I…
Singing willow, willow, willow down the way; And I seemed to hear it still, Oh, Vive L'amore, vive l'Armadillo, 'Be my darling Armadillo all the day. Be my darling Armadillo all the…
By Frank Turner (2016)
On album Mittens (2016)

…theodolite, I was calling it a day
When I heard a voice that sang a sad refrain:
[Chorus]
'Oh, my darling Armadillo
Let me tell…
…you of my love
Listen to my Armadillo roundelay;
Be my fellow on my pillow
Underneath this weeping willow
Be my darling Armadillo…
…bike
To discover what these Armadillo lovers would be like
[Chorus]
'Oh, my darling Armadillo
How delightful…
…those ideal worlds,
How I miss those ideal worlds,
Oh how I miss those worlds that used to live inside of me.
See that boy, he's…
…worlds,
Oh how I miss those ideal worlds, the ones I used to sell you.
Last night I dreamt that I was walking on a lake shore,
The willow…
…and beauty run away?
And how I miss those ideal worlds,
How I miss those ideal worlds,
Oh how I miss those ideal worlds that I used to…