Down Before Cathay letra

Through red forests that lean against the hills
I wandered with my heart in my hand
My cloak wound down to the shores of Cathay
Where the gold lay scattered on the sand
Night was young back before the dawn
Casting kisses at the day
Shipping the sea bestriding the earth
Down before Cathay

The admirable deeds of Khubla Khan
we admired from the deck
Of our cedarwood ship
Observing the domes that prance from Mandalay
Where the dogs they sleep all the day
We gazed upon the Towers of Tyre
That rose coarse and spicey in the air
But we sailed up the coast to sidon
Where the gazes are so rare
Where the gazes are so rare

The ship shone its lamp across the silent air
That swirled before Cathay
And there on the sand that courts the amber sea
Our fair bodies we cast away
Night was young back before the dawn
Casting kisses at the day
Sipping the sea bestriing the earth
Down before Cathay

The Incredible String Band - Letras

• A Very Cellular Song
• Adam And Eve
• Air
• Alice Is A Long Time Gone
• All Writ Down
• Antoine
• At The Lighthouse Dance
• Bad Sadie Lee
• Banks Of Sweet Italy
• Big Ted
• Black Jack David
• Blues For The Muse
• Born In Your Town
• Bridge Song
• Can't Keep Me Here
• Chinese White
• Circus Girl
• Cold February
• Come With Me
• Cosmic Boy
• Cousin Caterpillar
• Creation
• Cutting The Strings
• Dandelion Blues
• Darling Belle
• Dear Old Battlefield
• Douglas Traherne Harding
• Down Before Cathay
• Dreams Of No Return
• Ducks On A Pond
• Dumb Kate
• Everything's Fine Right Now
• Evolution Rag
• Explorer
• Fair As You
• First Girl I Loved
• Footsteps Of The Heron
• Frutch
• Gently Tender
• Glancing Love
• Good As Gone
• Good Dog
• Greatest Friend
• Here Till Here Is There
• Hirem Pawnitof / Fairies' Hornpipe
• I Know You
• Invocation
• Ithkos
• Job's Tears
• Juggler's Song
• Koeeoaddi There
• Light In Time Of Darkness / Glad To See You
• Little Cloud
• Little Girl
• Log Cabin In The Sky
• Lordly Nightshade
• Lover Man
• Maker Of Islands
• Maya
• Maybe Someday
• Mercy I Cry City
• Moon Hang Low
• My Father Was A Lighthouse Keeper
• My Name Is Death
• Nightfall
• No Sleep Blues
• October Song
• Oh, Lord How Happy I Am
• Old Buccaneer
• Painted Chariot
• Painting Box
• Pictures In A Mirror
• Puppet Song
• Puppies
• Queen Of Love
• Rainbow
• Red Hair
• Restless Night
• Robot Blues
• Sailor And The Dancer
• Saturday Maybe
• Seagull
• See Your Face And I Know You
• Smoke Shovelling Song
• Sunday Song
• Swift As The Wind
• Talking Of The End
• The Actor
• The Circle Is Unbroken
• The Eyes Of Fate
• The Half-remarkable Question
• The Head
• The Hedgehog's Song
• The Iron Stone
• The Letter
• The Mad Hatter's Song
• The Minotaur's Song
• The Mountain Of God
• The Tree
• The Water Song
• The Yellow Snake
• This Moment
• Three Is A Green Crown
• Time
• Tree
• Turquoise Blue
• Veshengro
• Waiting For You
• Walking Along With You
• Waltz Of The New Moon
• Way Back In The 1960's
• Weather The Storm
• When The Music Starts To Play
• When You Find Out Who You Are
• White Bird
• Witches Hat
• Womankind
• Worlds They Rise And Fall
• You Get Brighter
• You Know What You Could Be