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?

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

Darling Belle The Incredible String Band

master was it your absence made me quiet at noon playing british bulldogs on the gravel was it your presence coloured my dream I burrowed in cupboards like a mole all saturday under old chairs and old

Dear Old Battlefield The Incredible String Band

just another rusty brother seeing his old role replayed looking in the world like a broken mirror seeing his old face displayed they come and go, come and go why do you advertise goodbye living a lie will

October Song The Incredible String Band

I'll sing you this October song, Oh, there is no song before it. The words and tune are none of my own, for my joys and sorrows bore it.

Maya The Incredible String Band

shall fellow the shallows Small waves and thunder be my pillow Upon the gleaming water two swans that swim And every place shall be my native home The east gate like a fortress dissolve it away The west

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

Koeeoaddi There The Incredible String Band

Tongues of the sheer wind, Setting your foot where the sand is untrodden, The ocean that only begins. Listen, a woman with a bulldozer built this house now.

Koeeoaddi There (2010 Remaster) The Incredible String Band

The natural cards revolve ever changing Seeded elsewhere planted in the garden fair grow trees, grow trees Tongues of the sheer wind Setting you foot where the sand is untrodden The ocean that only begins

White Bird The Incredible String Band

white bird on the water In beauty calm and still White bird, white bird, white bird Of the morning White bird, white bird, White bird, white bird, white bird Of the morning White bird, white bird, See

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.

Painting Box The Incredible String Band

When the morning of your eyes comes waking through my shadows Leaving just a trace of twilight sleep I whisper to the baby raindrops playing on my window And tell them gently this is not the time that

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

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

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

Vishangro The Incredible String Band

Moon of the berries is waning to clay Bavol the wind leap on the whale's way Sing for Veshengro, oak ash and may I will not flash the day glance on the strong king's shield Nor yet the moon glance on the

The Mad Hatter's Song The Incredible String Band

And if you cried, you know you'd fill a lake with tears, Still wouldn't turn back the years, Since the city has took you, Mad Hatter is on my mind.

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

You Know What You Could Be The Incredible String Band

He might tell you 'bout what is Or even 'bout what is not. 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.

Bridge Song The Incredible String Band

Beautiful Girl: To the South a brightness It is not the moon deep dreams unfurling It is not the starlight far but near I feel in my heart bright joy stirring Look yonder love, see it comes more clear

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.

Douglas Traherne Harding The Incredible String Band

When I was born I had no head My eye was single and my body was filled with light And the light that I was, was the light that I saw by And the light that I saw by, was the light that I was And many's

A Very Cellular Song The Incredible String Band

Winter was cold and the clothing was thin But the gentle shepherd calls the tune Oh, dear mother what shall I do?

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

Dust Be Diamonds The Incredible String Band

I fished for a plow, it was heavy as lead And tired in my body, I wished for a bed When I lay claim to nothing, seems everything's mine When I lay claim to nothing Dust be diamonds, water be wine

Maker Of Islands The Incredible String Band

I do my job and it's pleasing to me It's getting so I can sail upon the roughest sea On the roughest sea I do alright On the roughest sea I do alright But when my work is over and done I get to being a

Evolution Rag The Incredible String Band

we're the fish men or the sea apes look at our tails and scales and out big tough leader away he wails he thinks he is the king pin but he's outraced by the little weedy stranger with the grin on his face

Cousin Caterpillar The Incredible String Band

"My cousin has great changes coming One day he'll wake with wings My cousin has great changes coming One day he'll wake with wings Cousin caterpillar Seven pairs of legs for you My cousin caterpillar Can

Everything's Fine Right Now The Incredible String Band

Who's that knocking on my door? Can't see no-one right now. Got my baby here by me, can't stop, no, no, not now.

Good As Gone The Incredible String Band

A strange thought just crossed my mind paid the rains back in kind. Twas the thought of sweet May coming on.

Womankind The Incredible String Band

I sing for love of womankind, I have one in my heart and mind, Low, my heart aches for her. My soul swims naked in her streams, And in her meadows lies to dream, Hay, what need to waken.

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.

Picture's In A Mirror The Incredible String Band

walls That he razed down His wife and he speak not As wine is brought A cup that seethes like the Black blood of wolves His wife's dagger is hidden in her dress He drinks joyless to a dark sleep The gaoler

Can't Keep Me Here The Incredible String Band

I'm going way over the white skyline And I'll sing and be happy And you can't keep me here, no how And I'll sing and be happy And my world is my own And I'll do what I want to And you can't keep

The Juggler's Song The Incredible String Band

Gather round friends and I'll show you what I made, Something in my bag that'll surprise you all It's a secret, don't push, I'm not ready Something to dazzle your eyes-o Something to blow your mind away

No Sleep Blues The Incredible String Band

It's a most inclement climate, for the season of the night Is that mouse playing football, oh, I thought they didn't like the light?

The Half Remarkable Question The Incredible String Band

What is that we are part of?

Fair As You The Incredible String Band

My fairest love I live and learn the songs that ring true Whose message is plain whose words are few whose melodies smell of the pines love dwells between the lines cast upon the air to fly when words

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

Invocation The Incredible String Band

you that create the diversity of the forms open to my words you that divide and multiply it hear my sounds I make yield league to you ancient associates and fellow wanderers you that move the heart in

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

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

Little Girl The Incredible String Band

Everybody knows tears that fall You 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

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

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

Puppies The Incredible String Band

"Puppies Lyrics Even the birds when they sing It's not everything to them Fiddle-head ferns and daffodils Made me want to play To the puppies having their little breakfast So I picked up six fine strings

This Moment The Incredible String Band

This Moment Lyrics This moment Is different From any Before it And this moment Is different It's now And if I Don't kiss you That kiss is Untasted I'll never No never Get it back But why should I want

The Circle Is Unbroken The Incredible String Band

"Seasons they change while cold blood is raining I have been waiting beyond the years Now over the skyline I see you're traveling Brothers from all time gathering here Come let us build the ship of the

Witches Hat The Incredible String Band

> Certainly, the children have seen them, In quiet places where the moss grows green.