The Incredible String Band - Sailor And The Dancer lyrics

Beneath some shaded planet

before this earth was born

We came together

and we danced in the early dawn

For my hands contain ten dances

that shall bear us into the night

Into the sea

and the moon's morning light

Night mimed a bow

and broke into the day

Fair sailors and their cautious friends

smiled on the sea

That reflected all their gazes

and danced with the air

The breezes filled the sails

high against the quay

High on the limpid waves the ship it did fly

Rising as a condor into the silvery sky

Passing through the arches that begin his earth

The sailors saw the scenic air

as air gave Earth it's birth

Gazing ahead towards today

They saw the fields of this world

They watched the first new dancers

As their bodies did unfurl.