Gandalph
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Posted: Nov. 29 2003, 19:30 |
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I'm trying to transcribe the lyrics to David Bedford's Rime Of The Ancient Mariner Live, featuring Mike on guitar. So I can update my website with them. I have already asked this question on the alt.music.mike-oldfield Usenet group but have had little success (not too surprising considering how rare the track is). Can anyone here help me complete them.
This is what I've got so far, missing parts denoted with [MISSING TEXT] or an *:
The wedding guest sat on a stone,
He cannot choose but hear,
And thus spake on that ancient man,
The bright-eyed Mariner.
The ship was cheered, the harbour cleared,
Hey ho and away we go,
The ship was cheered, the harbour cleared,
Hey ho and away we go.
The sun came up upon the left,
Hey ho and away we go,
Out of the sea came he,
Hey ho and away we go.
And he shone bright, and on the right
Hey ho and away we go,
Went down into the sea,
Hey ho and away we go.
Higher and higher each day,
Hey ho and away we go,
Till over the mast at noon,
Hey ho and away we go.
Well they call me hanging Johnny,
Away-I-Oh
But I never hanged nobody,
So hang boys hang.
They say I hanged my mother,
Away-I-Oh
My sister and my brother,
So hang boys hang.
They say I hang for money,
Away-I-Oh
But hanging is not funny,
So hang boys hang,
A rope, a beam, a ladder,
Away-I-Oh
Well hang you all together,
So hang boys hang.
We'll hang it all together,
Away-I-Oh
We'll hang for better weather
Away-I-Oh
So hang boys hang,
Hang.
Well they call me hanging Johnny,
Away-I-Oh
But I never hanged nobody,
So hang boys hang.
Beyond the shadow of the ship,
He watched the water-snakes,
They moved in tracks of shining white,
And when they reared, the elfish light,
Fell off in hoary flakes.
Within the shadow of the ship,
He watched their rich attire,
Blue, glossy green, and velvet black,
They coiled and swam; and every track,
Was a flash of golden fire.
O happy living things! no tongue,
Their beauty might declare,
A spring of love gushed from my heart,
And I blessed them unaware.
[MISSING TEXT]
[The Rio Grande lyrics]
Farewell, but this I tell,
To thee, thou Wedding-Guest!
He prayeth well, who loveth well,
Both man and bird and beast.
He prayeth best, who loveth best,
All things both great and small;
For the dear God who loveth us
He made and loveth all.
The ship was cheered, the harbour cleared, [*8]
The sails are furled and your journey's done,
*
The sails are furled and your journey's done,
*
To your own country at last you come,
*
To your own country at last you come,
*
[MISSING TEXT]
We're homeward bound across the blue sea.
Going home.
We're homeward bound across the blue sea,
And we're bound for the old country.
Then away, love, away.
Going home.
We're homeward bound this very day,
And we're bound for the old country.
Thanks, Gandalph.
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