All Writ Down The Incredible String Band

more high Than to give a little schoolboy To give a little schoolboy his first love But oh did I cry And did I cry For I thought that those days Would just fade and die But every cell in my body has it all

Chinese White The Incredible String Band

The bent twig of darkness Grows the petals of the morning It shows to them the birds singing Just behind the dawning Come dip into the cloud cream lapping I can't keep my hand on the plough Because

Robot Blues The Incredible String Band

Down in Robot City, you might think it's play play play Down in Robot City, you might think it's play play play But a Number 5 Robot he must work in all the night and day Number 1 come by, he give my work

Lordly Nightshade The Incredible String Band

Captured by Hitler with Oliver Twist in the tower Guards say here's pens and paper just sit down and work for an hour O, Goodness, how can we escape? but it's not worthwhile All I can do is smile.

The Hedgehog's Song The Incredible String Band

Oh, you know all the words, and you sung all the notes, But you never quite learned the song, she sang. I can tell by the sadness in your eyes, That you never quite learned the song.

Little Cloud The Incredible String Band

Lying awake, late the other night Heard above me a trembling, I looked up, it was a little cloud, From which a gold string was dangling; You know, I gave the string a little pull, Just to see what was

Red Hair The Incredible String Band

stepping out of the grey day she came her red hair falling like the sky love held them there in that moment with the whole world passing by he could look through all of his books and not find a line that

Douglas Traherne Harding The Incredible String Band

the time that I've passed by the river And saw no tollman and needed no ferryman to cross And I enjoyed the world aright For the sea itself floweth And warm I was and crowned.

A Very Cellular Song The Incredible String Band

First please your eyes and then your ears, Jenny Exchanging love tokens say goodnight Lay down my dear sister Won't you lay and take your rest?

The Tree The Incredible String Band

I had a tree In the dream hills where my childhood lay And I'd go there in the wide long days And my tree would listen to all that I'd say And the sun was shining brightly and the sky was smiling Then

Maya The Incredible String Band

gate like a prison O come break it down Island I remember living here Wandering beneath the empty skies In time her hair grew long and swept the ground And seven blackbirds carried it out behind It bore

Little Girl The Incredible String Band

and me had something higher than just good times Something else that I just can`t find without you Without you got emptiness Without you I`ve got an emptiness That is lower Than just about anything at all

Tree The Incredible String Band

I had a tree In the dream hills where my childhood lay And I'd go there in the wide long days And my tree would listen to all that I'd say And the sun was shining brightly and the sky was smiling Then

How Happy I Am The Incredible String Band

Oh, Lord how happy I am, Oh, Lord how happy I am, I won't feel sad 'till the whiskey's gone. Oh, Lord how happy I am. Oh, when I met my first woman, you know, she was nice and kind as can be.

Queen Of Love The Incredible String Band

A strong power calls from the left hand Across the waters deep a strong power calls from the left hand let all things sleep or weep oh the queen of love, you have unwove my eyes and my heart will not sleep

Mercy I Cry City The Incredible String Band

upon my mind And sometimes I think you keep forgettin' That you don't know me Mercy I cry city, you're all upon my mind Oh, send another carriage Chugging down your chokey tube I hope it makes

Cutting The Strings The Incredible String Band

There now, they've all gone almost as if they never had been I turn my eyes backwards and I gaze into my own gaze I turn my eyes inwards and I gaze into my own face I built my prison stone by stone how

Moon Hang Low The Incredible String Band

let the moon hang low low down in the sky the lower it goes the higher we fly one small candle is just enough light for endless moments of love bright and the more I know you the more I know and the more

Puppet Song The Incredible String Band

mind gets up to when you're away throwing clouds of rain over brightest day there was once a little man he worked all day and slept all night he looked at the sun it didn't seem bright, it didn't seen

Bad Sadie Lee The Incredible String Band

better than Annie Oakley Ain't no-one around who shoots better than me And I'll show you just what I mean Fired a shot at a buzzard on a limb Killed him stone dead but it went through him Shot a buffalo down

Darling Belle The Incredible String Band

papa would take me to the park to see the swans by hansom cab trotting so high holding his hand to see the swans hissing louder than rustling dresses of gracious ladies bustling by see swan ships come

Antoine The Incredible String Band

So still the green and golden plain in icy spring They young French convent girls in white singing He took the sacrament young Antoine not without a blush He left the priest the good book the bread and

Smoke Shoveling Song The Incredible String Band

> Last winter blew so cold no lies, And my fire smoke would not rise; Soon as the smoke tried to depart, It'd be froze up harder than a landlord's heart.

No Sleep Blues The Incredible String Band

And the dawn comes sneaking up when it thinks I'm not looking I am starting to grieve, man, I used to know but now I believe, man They tell me sleep is a gas and if I want to lay down But I'm sorry

Dust Be Diamonds The Incredible String Band

the time, time, time Dust be diamonds, water be wine Happy, happy, happy all the time, time, time Dust be diamonds, water be wine Happy, happy, happy all the time, time, time King Jesus, he whispered

Dandelion Blues The Incredible String Band

You meet a girl, She moves soft eyes and pulls you in the game. Perhaps you do not wonder her reasons or her name.

The Minotaur's Song The Incredible String Band

> 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.

Swift As The Wind The Incredible String Band

For my delight Swift as the wind flies His chariot and wings Shine in the light of a thousand suns For he comes from the land of no night He comes from the land of no night There is no land The night is

Saturday Maybe The Incredible String Band

factory chimney cough yellow smoke trucks and trains go rumbling throw down your key from your window high your man's out drinking neighbours thinking evil lead by the the lights of your electric fire

I Know You The Incredible String Band

I know you through and through Saw you kiss the flowers For hours and hours Saw you colour the flowers For hours and hours You and all the ones I've known Shall wear my crown Winged we were before time

Picture's In A Mirror The Incredible String Band

Deep in the hollow jail Sleeps Lord Randall The mixed voices speak of bread And of sheets that were scarlet And blue are at his head His heart like a cat drowns in a well He thinks of all the girls he

Way Back In The 1960's The Incredible String Band

"I was a young man back in the 1960s. Yes, you made your own amusements then, For going to the pictures; Well, the travel was hard, and I mean We still used the wheel.

Gently Tender The Incredible String Band

Gently tender falls the rain Washing clean the slate again But leave me please, behind my brain This light doesn't shadow on her Shadows dancing through the pink milk blankets Where my mind lay

Maybe Someday The Incredible String Band

will come, come along, long Maybe someday she will come along Maybe someday she will come, come along, long Maybe someday she will come along Sitting here with my arms around my music Thinking of the

The Eyes Of Fate The Incredible String Band

"Oh, who can see in the eyes of fate?

Worlds They Rise And Fall The Incredible String Band

worlds they rise and fall within her eyes she gives the eagle wings to fly her skies upon her breath the four worlds live and die and sometimes its all I can do is bow to her chorus: but when the moon

My Name Is Death The Incredible String Band

I am the question that cannot be answered I am the lover that cannot be lost Yet small are the gifts of my servant the soldier For time is my offspring, pray what is my name?

Talking Of The End The Incredible String Band

talking of the end talking of the end let me hear you say you disagree talking of the end talking of the end let me hear you say it will not be this is no time for easy riding this is no time to cry better

Footsteps Of The Heron The Incredible String Band

I've nowhere to go I'm not in the slightest way upset I'm not chasing a hope or a dream or a plan And I'm not even chasing the sunset So I walked down this street I had no one to meet And my thoughts

Three Is A Green Crown The Incredible String Band

"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

Black Jack Davey The Incredible String Band

Black Jack David is the name that I bear been alone in the forest for a long time But the time is coming when a lady I'll find I will love her Hold her singing through the green green trees And the skin

Seagull The Incredible String Band

Cold morning sun to show me where I spent the night Sun can you find through porthole on the anchored sea ?

Banks Of Sweet Italy The Incredible String Band

and must you go my flower my gem my laughter and my hope of joy to follow fortune through all the world make luck pursue you my darling boy the sun shines bright in France yellow it shines on high barbaree

You Know What You Could Be The Incredible String Band

And if he's kind and gentle too, And he loves the world a lot, His twilight words may melt the slush Of what you have been taught. You know what you could be.

Waltz Of The New Moon The Incredible String Band

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

October Song The Incredible String Band

The words and tune are none of my own, for my joys and sorrows bore it. Beside the sea The brambly briars, in the still of evening, Birds fly out behind the sun, and with them I'll be leavng.

See Your Face and Know You The Incredible String Band

I sit down in the Underground trying to be gay see the wild grass turn just into hay I see the magic movement but they don't fly away bad karma and it ricochets my eye bad karma round me the asp and the

Blues For The Muse The Incredible String Band

I wake up in the early when I see my day walk in I wake up in the early when I start to begin I drink up my coffee to drive dreams away And I think about leaving but remain for the day Oh, glory

Rainbow The Incredible String Band

Golden seeds of autumn streak the purple sky miles of amber raindrops stretch between our hands just then, just then my heart lept high beautiful colours danced in my eye walked to the window looked up

The Mountain Of God The Incredible String Band

"The Mountain Of God Lyrics Behold the mountain of the Lord in latter days shall rise Hark, the herald angels sing Hush, hush, whisper who dare, Christopher Robin is saying his prayers Do ye not fly as