Lady Eleanor (1971)
Dm - Am - Dm - Am (4x) - Dm - Am - Dm - Am (2x)
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1. Bashee playing magician sitting lotus on
the floor,
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Belly dancing beauty with a
power driven saw,
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had
my share of nightmares, didn’t think there could be much more,
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then
in walked Roderick Usher with the Lady Eleanor.
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2. She tied my eyes with the ribbon of a silken ghostly thread,
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I gazed with troubled vision
on an old four-poster bed,
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where
Eleanor had risen to kiss the neck below my head,
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then
bid me come along with her to the land of the dancing dead.
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But it’s alright, Lady Eleanor, alright, Lady Eleanor
!
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I’m alright where I am.
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3. She gazed with the love and beauty like a mother to a son,
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like
living, dying, seeing, being, all rolled into one,
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then
all at once I heard some music playing in my bones,
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the
same old song I’d heard for years, reminding me of home.
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But it’s alright, Lady Eleanor, alright, Lady Eleanor
!
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I’m alright where I am.
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4. Then creeping on towards me, licking lips with tongues of fire,
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a
host of golden demons screaming lust and base desire,
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and
when it seemed for certain that the screams could get no higher,
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I heard a voice above the
rest, screaming, “You’re a liar !”
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But it’s alright, Lady Eleanor, alright, Lady Eleanor
!
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I’m alright here in your arms !
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(orig. = capo 2nd) (Lindisfarne)