Cat Stevens - The Boy With A Moon & Star On His Head lyrics

A gardener's daughter stopped me on my way, on the day I was<br>To wed<br>It is you who I wish to share my body with she said<br>We'll find a dry place under the sky with a flower for a bed<br>And for my joy I will give you a boy with a moon and<br>Star on his head.<br>Her silver hair flowed in the air laying waves across the sun<br>Her hands were like the white sands, and her eyes had<br>Diamonds on.<br>We left the road and headed up to the top of the<br>Whisper wood<br>And we walked 'till we came to where the holy magnolia stood.<br>And there we laid cool in the shade singing songs and<br>Making love...<br>With the naked earth beneath us and the universe above.<br>The time was late my wedding wouldn't wait I was sad but<br>I had to go,<br>So while she was asleep I kissed her cheek for cheerio.<br>The wedding took place and people came from many<br>Miles around<br>There was plenty merriment, cider and wine abound<br>But out of all that I recall I remembered the girl I met<br>'cause she had given me something that my hear could not<br>Forget.<br>A year had passed and everything was just as it was a year<br>Before...<br>As if was a year before...<br>Until the gift that someone left, a basket by my door.<br>And in there lay the fairest little baby crying to be fed,<br>I got down on my knees and kissed the moon and star on<br>His head.<br>As years went by the boy grew high and the village looked<br>On in awe<br>They'd never seen anything like the boy with the moon and<br>Star before.<br>And people would ride from far and wide just to seek the<br>Word he spread<br>I'll tell you everything I've learned, and love is all...he said.