Sweet Sir Galahad Lyrics

(Words and Music by Joan Baez) At night in the safety of shadows and numbers Seeking some turf on which nothing encumbers The buying and selling of casual looks Stuff that gets pr...Read Full Lyrics

Chorus Take me back to the place where I first saw the light To my sweet sunny south, take me home Where the mocking birds sing me to sleep every night Oh why was I tempted to roam...Read Full Lyrics

Today, there's no salvation, the band's packed up and gone Left me standing with my penny in my hand There's a big crowd at the station where the blind man sings his song But he ca...Read Full Lyrics

(Music by Joan Baez, Words by Thomas Merton) Sweet brother, if I do not sleep My eyes are flowers on your tomb And if I cannot eat my bread My fasts shall live like willows where ...Read Full Lyrics

(Lyrics by Joan Baez, Music by Georges Delerue) Father, can you hear the tolling of the bells Echo a hundred thousand sons who wish you well? Tears will pour from the Golden Eagle...Read Full Lyrics

Queen Jane lay in labor For six weeks and more The women grew weary And the midwife gave o'er King Henry, he was sent for On horse back and speed King Henry came to her In the tim...Read Full Lyrics

When rose the eastern star, the birds came from a-far, In that full might of glory. With one melodious voice they sweetly did rejoice And sang the wonderous story, Sang, praising G...Read Full Lyrics

There was a fair maid lived in the north Oh, the rose and the linsey, oh She fell in love with her father's sir Down by the Greenwood side, oh He courted her for years and a day O...Read Full Lyrics

(Written by Joan Baez and Ron Davies) I had a dream I was following a barefoot girl Beside a stream that flowed around the world And we spoke of many things though her mouth never...Read Full Lyrics

(Words and Music by Joan Baez) When the mist rolls in on Highway One Like a curtain to the day A thousand silhouettes hold out their thumbs And I see them and I say You are my chi...Read Full Lyrics