You Will Be My Ain True Love

       The song, You Will Be My Ain True Love, is from the movie, cold mountain.  It sounds immemorial song and depicts an ancient story.

           It was written by Sting and sung by Allson Krauss. Sting said he wrote the song for the female character. The song brings the Inman character back from hell, back to her, so this was always a woman's song.

      

You'll walk unscathed through musket fire
No ploughman's blade will cut thee down
No cutler's horn will mark thy face
And you will be my ain true love,

Alison Krauss & Sting

And you will be my ain true love
And as you walk through death's dark veil
The cannon's thunder can't prevail
And those who hunt thee down will fail
And you will be my ain true love,
And you will be my ain true love.
Asleep inside the cannon's mouth,
The captain cries, "Here comes the rout,"
They'll seek to find me north and south,
I've gone to find my ain true love.
The field is cut and bleeds to red.
The cannon balls fly round my head,
The infirmary man may count me dead,
When I've gone to find my ain true love,
I've gone to find my ain true love.