Mike Heron - Feast of Stephen Lyrics

John Cale: piano, guitar, bass, viola, vocal arrangement

Simon Nicol: guitar

Gecry Conway: drums

Sue Sunny, Liza Strike, John Cale: backing vocals



When winter came this year she found me well prepared for her

The flame well fed with pine, shuttered windows oakwood doors

From the low dales come the fiddler, gave his tunes their flight

Don't know her name or the dance that became her so well

From topmost limb of night's dark tree

Tonight my lantern light floats free

The ladies danced so well, the ladies danced so light

But it was not mortal step drew me from my guests to meet the night

Snow lies deep with friends unseen

I will light my eyes to Venus green

Holding my life with a hope

When the midnight skies rise,

She flies---