lyrics thread ( not silly or trite)

[afro-elf]

How about posting some lyrics here

RULE 1: NOTHING SILLY OR TRITE

aim for something artistic, unsual, or saying something of value
if you know something about the background that might make it interesting that is ok too

RULE 2 NAME THE ARTIST
this way we can further are research of the artist


RULE 3 ONE LYRIC PER POST



RULE 4 NO HAPPY SAPPY SONGS
I'll start wil one : Fotheringay
[Sandy Denny] of fairport convention

Mary, Queen of Scots, was imprisoned at the castle of Fotheringay by Queen Elizabeth I for conspiring to overthrow Elizabeth.

How often she has gazed from castle windows o'er,
And watched the daylight passing within her captive wall,
With no-one to heed her call.
The evening hour is fading within the dwindling sun,
And in a lonely moment those embers will be gone
And the last of all the young birds flown.
Her days of precious freedom, forfeited long before,
To live such fruitless years behind a guarded door,
But those days will last no more.
Tomorrow at this hour she will be far away,
Much farther than these islands,
Or the lonely Fotheringay