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The Hangman's Beautiful Daughter - Incredible String Band - Elektra 1968 
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Koeeaddi there - Robin Williamson
The Minotaur's Song - Robin Williamson
Witches Hat - Robin Williamson
A very Cellular Song - Mike Heron
Mercy I Cry City - Mike Heron
Waltz of the New Moon - Robin Williamson
The Water Song - Robin Williamson
Three Is a Green Crown - Robin Williamson
Swift as the Wind - Mike Heron
Nightfall - Robin Williamson
Koeeaddi there
The natural cards revolve ever changing
Seeded elsewhere planted in the garden fair grow trees, grow trees.
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Tongues of the sheer wind
Setting you foot where the sand is untrodden,
the ocean that only begins.
Listen a woman with a bulldozer built this house now
Carving away the mountain whose name is your childhood home
We were trying to buy it buy it buy it
someone was found killed there all bones bones dry bones, bones, dry bones.
Earth water fire and air
Met together in a garden fair
Put in a basket bound with skin
if you answer this riddle
if you answer this riddle
You'll never begin.
Born in a house where the doors shut tight
Shadowy fingers on the curtains at night
Cherry tree blossom head high snow
a busy main road where I wasn't to go
I used to sit on the garden wall
Say hello to people going by so tall
hallo, to the postman's stubbly skin
hallo, to the baker's stubbly grin
Mrs. Thompson gave me a bear
Brigitte and some people lived upstairs.
Skating on happy valley pond
Various ministers and guards stood around
the ice was nice hallo the invisible brethren
and there was a tent you played cards with the
Soldiers in, don't worry we won't send anyone
after you they screamed
but me and licorice saw the last of them one
Misty twisty day
across the mournful morning moor motoring away.
Singing ladybird, ladybird what is your wish
your wish is not granted unless it's a fish
your wish is not granted unless it's a dish
a fish on a dish is that what you wish.
Earth water fire and air
Met together in a garden fair
Put in a basket bound with skin
if you answer this riddle
if you answer this riddle
You'll never begin.
The Minotaur's Song
Straight from the shoulder
I think like a soldier
I know what's right and what's wrong
He knows what's right and what's wrong.
I'm the original discriminating buffalo man
and I'll do what's wrong as long as I can
He'll do what's wrong as long as he can.
I live in a labyrinth under the sea
down in the dark as dark as can be
I like the dark as dark as can be
He likes the dark as dark as can be.
I'll even attack you or eat you whole
Down in the dark my bone mills roll
Porridge for my porridge bowl
Porridge for his porridge bowl.
I'm strong as the earth from which I'm born
He's strong as the earth from which he's born
I can't dream well because of my horns
He can't dream well because of his horns.
Moo.......
I'm strong as the earth from which I'm born
He's strong as the earth from which he's born
I can't dream well because of my horns
He can't dream well because of his horns.
A minotaur gets very sore
His features they are such a bore
His habits are predicta-bull
Aggressively relia-bull, bull, bull.
I'm strong as the earth from which I'm born
He's strong as the earth from which he's born
I can't dream well because of my horns
He can't dream well because of his horns.
I'm the original discriminating buffalo man
and I'll do what's wrong as long as I can
He'll do what's wrong as long as he can.
as long as he can.......
Witches Hat
Certainly the children have seen them
in quiet places where the moss grows green.
Coloured shells jangle together
the wind is cold the year is old the trees whisper together
and bent in the wind they lean.
Next week a monkey is coming to stay.
If I was a witches hat
Sitting on her head like a paraffin stove
I'd fly away and be a bat
across the air I would rove.
Stepping like a tightrope walker
Putting one foot after another
Wearing black cherries for rings.
A very Cellular Song
Winter was cold and the clothing was thin
but the gentle shepherd calls the tune
Oh, dear mother what shall I do
First please your eyes and then your ears Jenny
Exchanging love tokens say goodnight.
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Lay down my dear sister
Won't you lay and take your rest
Won't you lay your head upon your saviours breast
and I love you but Jesus loves you the best
and I bid you goodnight, goodnight, goodnight,
and I bid you goodnight, goodnight, goodnight.
One of these mornings bright and early and fine.
Goodnight, goodnight
not a cricket not a spirit going to shout me on
Goodnight, goodnight ...
I go walking in the valley of the shadow of death
Goodnight, goodnight ...
and his rod and his staff shall comfort me
Goodnight, goodnight ...
Oh John the wine he saw the sign
Goodnight, goodnight ...
Oh, John say I seen a number of signs
Goodnight, goodnight ...
Tell A for the ark that wonderful boat
Goodnight, goodnight ...
You know they built it on the land getting water to float
Goodnight, goodnight ...
Tell B for the beast at the ending of the wood
Goodnight, goodnight ...
You know it ate all the children when they wouldn't be good
Goodnight, goodnight ...
I remember quite well, I remember quite well
Goodnight, goodnight ...
I was walking in Jerusalem just like John
Goodnight, goodnight, goodnight ...
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Who would lose and who would bruise
or who would live quite prettily
and who would love what comes along
and fill the air with joyous song.
Who would go and who would come
or who would simply linger
and who would hide behind your chair
and steal your crystallised ginger.
Nebulous nearness cry to me
at this timeless moment
Someone dear to me wants me near, makes me high
I can hear vibrations fly
through mangoes, pomegranates and planes
all the same
when it reaches me and teaches me
To sigh.
Who would mouse and who would lion
or who would be the tamer
and who would hear directions clear
from the unameable namer.
Who would skip and who would plod
or who would like quite silly
and who would ride backwards on a giraffe
Stopping every so often to laugh.
Amoebas are very small.
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Oh, ah, ee, oo, there's absolutely no strife
Living the timeless life
I don't need a wife
Living the timeless life
if I need a friend I just give a wriggle
Split right down the middle
and when I look there's two of me
both as handsome as can be
Oh, here we go slithering, ...
here we go slithering and squelching on
Oh, here we go slithering,
here we go slithering and squelching on
Oh, ah, ee, oo, there's absolutely no strife
Living the timeless life.
Black hair brown hair feather and scale
Seed and stamen and all unnamed lives that live
Turn your quivering nerves in my direction
Turn your quivering nerves in my direction ...
Feel the energy projection of my cells
Wishes you well.
May the long time sun shine upon you
all love surround you
and the pure light within you
Guide you all the way on.
May the long time sun shine upon you
all love surround you
and the pure light within you
Guide you all the way on ...
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Mercy I Cry City
Since you got me here I see you're trying to steal my soul
You're army's trying so very hard to find for me a goal
but where's your quiet pastures where there's time for me to be
nothing else but what I am that's what you seem scared to see
You cover up your emptiness with brick and noise and rush
Oh, I can see and touch you but you don't owe reality much.
Have mercy I cry city you're all upon my mind
sometimes I think you keep forgetting that you don't know me
Mercy I cry city you're all upon my mind.
Send another carriage chugging down your chokey tube
I hope it makes you happy 'cause it don't do my health much good
You slowly killing fumes now squeeze the lemon in my head
Make me know just what it's like for a sin drenched christian to be dead
Ah, show me your glitter and your flashing neon light
You see I think that only the sun knows how to be quietly bright
Have mercy I cry city you're all upon my mind
sometimes I think you keep forgetting that you don't know me
Mercy I cry city you're all upon my mind.
Hey, city, what you been doing ?
All these years what you been doing ?
Who would believe that what you been doing ?
Would make such a ruin of you ?
Waltz of the New Moon
I hear that the emperor of China used to wear iron shoes with ease
We are the tablecloth and also the table also the fable of the dancing leaves.
The new moon is rising the axe of the thunder is broken
as never was not since the flood nor yet since the world began
the new moon is shining the angels are washing their windows
above the years whose jumble sale goes spinning on below.
Ask the snail beneath the stone, ask the stone beneath the wall
Are there any stars at all
like an eagle in the sky tell me if air is strong.
In the floating pan pipe victories of the golden harvest
Safe in the care of the dear moon.
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The new moon is rising the eyelid of God is approaching
the humane train the skating raining travelling voice of certainty
the new moon is shining the harmonious hand is now holding lord krishna's ring
the eagle's wing the voice of mother everything.
Ask the snail beneath the stone, ask the stone beneath the wall
Are there any stars at all
like an eagle in the sky tell me if air is strong.
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In the floating palaces of the spinning castle
May the fire king's daughter bring water to you.
The Water Song
Water water see the water flow
Glancing dancing see the water flow
O, wizard of changes, water water water
Dark or silvery mother of life
Water water holy mystery heavens daughter.
Wizard of changes, teach me the lesson of flowing.
God made a song when the world was new
Waters laughter sings it is true
O, wizard of changes, teach me the lesson of flowing.
God made a song when the world was new
Waters laughter sings it is true
Wizard of changes, teach me the lesson of flowing.
Three Is a Green Crown
Aaaahhhaaaa ....
Not with the lips of skin nor yet with the lips of dark snow
but let the white dove sing
of the body of life of the lover whose love is complete
Hold hands out to greet
Ah, let not the swan be brought low.
For all that is moving is moved by her hands
She is mirrored for ever in the life of the lands
in the building of thoughts in the shifting sands.
Life life remembering.
Well, here you are now o now you are here
Well, how has it been so far
the hair and the fur
Lemons, frankinscence, and myrhh.
For all that is moving is moved by her hands
She is mirrored for ever in the life of the lands
In the building of thoughts in the shifting sands.
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Let the cracked crystal raindrop be merged in the sea
Silent shining thoughtless free
but close your eyes to find the golden flower
and open them to see the sunshine shower
where the flowers are free and the fishes ask
Ah, what can water be.
She beareth thought she beareth visions
Speaking truth in contradictions
Dreams of pain dreams of laughter
and every action follows after.
O second self o gate of the soft mystery
I'll love you if you'll love me; o guide me
with the gold of Gabriel's wing grant me the tongue
that all the earth does sing
Vibrating light forever one the sun
the book of life is open to us
there'll be no secrets left between us.
Swift as the Wind
Aaaaaahhhaaaaa .....
For my delight
Aaaaaahhhaaaaa .....
Swift as the wind flies
His chariot and wings
Shine shine in the light of a thousand suns
for he comes from the land of no night
Oh, he comes from the land of no night.
There is no land
the night is all around my child
You must stop imagining all this
You must stop imagining all this
for your own good
why don't you go with the rest and play downstairs.
Aaaaaahhhaaaaa .....
Closing my eyes
Aaaaaahhhaaaaa .....
I see him so clear
the blood on his sword
Flashes so bright as is falls to the skulls by his feet
but his eyes they know all things
oh, his eyes they know all.
There is no blood
No-one knows all my child
You must stop imagining all this
You must stop imagining all this
for your own good
why don't you go with the rest and play downstairs.
Aaaaaahhhaaaaa .....
Swift as the wind
Aaaaaahhhaaaaa .....
Stay if you will now
Seeing you again will be in your castle so fair
but I make take some time on the way
and I may have to spend some time downstairs.
Nightfall
Nightfall oohh river of night flow through me
Washing thoughts of the day on your waters away
for the morrow that dawns never knew me.
Nightfall nightfall folding her dark locks around you
her eyes they have found you would show you
this new dream they're holding.
Oohh sleep oohh come to me you
who are night's daughter
and I'll give you my eyes for the colours that rise
as time's echoes reflect on you water.
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