Lordly Nightshade (2010 Remaster) (2010 Remastered Version)

Lordly Nightshade (2010 Remastered Version) - 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

Down gallons of glandular

Corridors of the dark castle

The pompous old bellman is tolling one bell

At bathtime the hippies in

Chains they are crossing the hall

Where Hitler is making his

New film about it all

We slip trough a pew and

Escape but I just don't know

All I can do is grow

Tell me more what then

Down Main Street I go on a

Duffel-coat hoping instead

For a little room yawn I'm so tired

With this big bag of coal on my head

It's a top hat I'm trying to sell or a lesson to learn

Vaguely seeking some fire to burn

While a group of middle-aged persons with

Dwarfish expressions and

Tinned conversations in Sunday blessed blue

Standing around for a photograph watch the cuckoo

Do you need any coal But it doesn't appear that they do

Then I offered my throat to the wolf but I just can't die

All I can do is fly

Tell me more what then Safe and

Secure in the skirts of the midsummer wood

Cooking soup with stale words and

Fresh meanings it tastes so good

The green wolf with his bunch of

Red roses is slinking away

All on a summer's day