Darling Belle - The Incredible String Band

[00:03.01]Papa would take me to the park to see the swans
[00:15.81]By hansom cab trotting so high
[00:39.47]Holding his hand to see the swans
[00:59.24]Hissing louder than rustling dresses of gracious ladies bustling by
[01:29.7]See swan ships come sailing in
[01:33.56]White as the clouds on a windy day
[01:52.43]James I suppose would be in school
[02:00.64]James I suppose would be in school
[02:03.99]I was I was learning to spell
[02:07.79]Laughing at loud smells
[02:14.06]Avoiding the rod of the codfaced master
[02:21.34]Was it your absence made me quiet at noon
[02:29.43]Playing british bulldogs on the gravel
[02:37.53]Was it your presence coloured my dream
[02:46.87]I burrowed in cupboards like a mole all Saturday
[02:54.6]Under old chairs and old ladies knees
[03:07.34]I framed your half remembered face
[03:13.09]With frail white embroideries
[03:24.05]Calling for you down the mousey garden
[03:31.88]Calling for you down the mousey garden
[03:43.08]O did you meet him at the ball
[03:52.86]Eighteen years on
[03:58.49]Tall soldier now and you full grown
[04:06.28]Belle did you meet him at the ball
[04:15.24]O do you remember me
[04:24.87]Thin girl with cold hands
[04:50.18]You in your scarlet and you knew my name
[05:12.31]Step to the veranda under the wisteria
[05:30.07]In the mysterious November
[05:49.05]Dancing as if with death or fate
[06:10.38]To the moon black ballroom
[06:29.42]Of the silk skinned lake
[06:50.83002]Kissing me you lifted my skirt
[07:10.8]Under the willow trees
[07:24.6]Keep the home fires burning
[07:29.97]Though your heart is yearning
[07:35.23]Though the boys are far away
[07:39.95]They dream of home
[07:45.51]There's a silver lining
[07:50.76]In the dark clouds shining
[07:55.96]Turn that lining inside out
[08:02.27]Till the boys come home
[08:08.92]O did I see you March to the train
[08:18.51]Did I cry was my nose red
[08:25.18]My two day bride can you feel me in your memory
[08:33.39]I will be the redness in your iron fire
[08:43.22]How could I write
[08:43.97]My words would seem sad or gay
[08:50.56]We regret to inform you
[08:55.63]We regret to inform you
[09:51.9]Meet me by gaslight in the dark dawn
[10:01.97]On waterloo bridge we will walk arm in arm
[10:51.2]Hearing the leaves fall with whisper into the foggy dew
[11:03.73]When we are dead
[11:13.63]When we are dead
[11:19.43]Now she sits in her brother's window's house
[11:33.55]Skin like a lizard aura like a daffodil
[11:41.49]Migrant guest from relative to inlaw
[11:49.06]She stares into the embers and remembers