Donovan - A Gift From A Flower To A Garden (2003) by Donovan (보컬) on maniadb.com

Color in sky, prussian blue
Scarlet fleece changes hue
Crimson ball sinks from view
Wear your love like heaven (Wear your love like)
Wear your love like heaven (Wear your love like)
Wear your love like heaven (Wear your love)

Lord, kiss me once more
Fill me with song
Allah, kiss me once more
That I may, that I may
Wear my love like heaven (Wear my love like)
Wear my love like heaven (Wear my love)
La-la, la-la-la, la-la-la, la-la-la

Color sky, havana lake
Color sky, rose carmethene
Alizarin crimson
Wear your love like heaven (Wear your love like)
Wear your love like heaven (Wear your love like)
Wear your love like heaven (Wear your love)

Lord, kiss me once more
Fill me with song
Allah, kiss me once more
That I may, that I may
Wear my love like heaven (Wear my love like)
Wear my love like heaven (Wear my love)
La-la, la-la-la, la-la-la, la-la-la

Cannot believe what I see
All I have wished for will be
All our race proud and free
Wear your love like heaven (Wear your love like)
Wear your love like heaven (Wear your love like)
Wear your love like heaven (Wear your love)

Lord, kiss me once more
Fill me with song
Allah, kiss me once more
That I may, that I may
Wear my love like heaven (Wear my love like)
Wear my love like heaven (Wear my love)
Carmine
Carmine

Come run jump skip a long sam
a very happy man I am
to know you are well and you're doing fine
kind-of puts at rest my mind

How's your brush and your lady fair
not to mention your stained glass stair
flower pot on window sill
on top of honeycomb hill

Have you found the secret door
to let you down to the earth's deep core
you'll be back in time fot tea
with a diamond to show me

Come run jump skip a long sam
a very happy man I am
to know you are well and you're doing fine
kind-of puts at rest my mind

How's your brush and your lady fair
not to mention your stained glass stair
flower pot on window sill
on top of honeycomb hill

Sun, the earth is turning
it's turning round
and love is the access
but they chop the tree down
all the proud trees are standing
as green as the sky
as green as the greenstone
that makes seabirds fly

ovens area baking
and the rivers run dry
as dry as the ocean
on wings of a fly
go if you're able
and come if you can
life's very unstable
it's built upon sand

marianne set the table
an old friend I see
marianne fetch the papers
there's two for tea

There was a time I thought of mine only
Could it be occurred to me while lonely
I was noble personage
Born to beautify the page
If I used time to set it down

There was a time I thought of mine only
Could it be occured to me while lonely
I was of high lineage
Cast up in a dreadful age
Born to be the hermit of my line

On a windy Saturday
St. Alban's market day
Little did I know
the work I was to do
Or the love I had to show

With your coat of many colours
and the flowers in your hair
you may while away the pleasant hours
to think upon all that is fair
think about it you'll agree
many miracles you'll see
miracles you'll seee ee
you'll see ee ee, see ee ee, ee
With the baby in your belly
and the poems on your tongue
you may chance to see me on your telly
giving love to the newborn one
to look upon and to touch
oh gosh life is really too much
life is really too much
you'll seee ee ee, seee ee ee, ee

Little Boy In Corduroy
Donovan

a little boy in corduroy
a little girl in lace
a little coy jump for joy
colour in a space

little boy in corduroy
after me say
save a sunny wish for a rainy day

how many wishes can you wish in a day
wish i had a wish to wish a wish away

take a seed
thread a bead
make a pretty thing

in a deed plant a seed
make a daisy ring
little boy in corduroy
after me say
how many wishes can you wish in a day
i wish i had a wish to wish a wish away
little boy in corduroy

under the greenwood tree
who loves to lie with me
and tune his merry note
unto the sweet bird's throat
come hither come hither come hither
here shall he see no enemy
but winter and rough weather

Who doth ambition shun
and love to live in the sun
seeking the food he eats
and pleased with what he gets
come hither come hither come hither
here shall he see no enemy
but winter and rough weather

and if it do come to pass
that any man turn ass
leaving his wealth and ease
a stubborn will to please
ducdame ducdame ducdame
there shall he see gross fools as he
an if he will come to me

Oh, happy I am
Call on the new day
People and flowers
Are one in the same
They're all in a chain
At the beginning of a new world

Someone's singing and I think it's me
Someone's living and oh gosh it's me
And so you see...

Love is only feeling
Feeling for you
Love is only feeling
Feeling for me (x2)

Into your life
There will come friends
Maybe a wife
Who to you sends
Love with no game
Part of a chain
At the beginning of a new child

Someone's singing and I think it's me
Someone's living and I think it's me
So you see...

Love is only feeling
Feeling for you
Love is only feeling
Feeling for you (x2)

Oh, happy I am
Roll on the new day
Happy I am
People and flowers
Are one and the same
They're all in a chain
At the beginning of a new world

Someone's painting and I think it's me
Someone's living and oh gosh it's me
And so you see...

Love is only feeling
Feeling for you
Love is only feeling
Feeling for me (x3)

In the golden garden bird of peace
Stands the silver girl the Wild Jewels niece
Paints and pretty colors Children's drawings on the wall
Look of doubt I cast you out be gone your ragged call

In the forest thick a trick of light
Makes an image magnet to my sight
Gown of purple velvet enchanted glazed eye
The sound of wings and sparkling rings behold a crimson sky

Tread to light so not to touch the grass
Breathe the air so slowly as you pass
Silent sudden dewdrop remains unseen until
Eyes to fall to hidden call the power of Love and Will

Symphonies of seaweed dance and swoon
Surreal celestial shore beneath the moon
See the dark and mighty peaks pierce the cumulus
Violet and mauve they power you can sus'

Elvin fingers clutch a deep black cloak of fine damask
Aged rock incarnate lie reveal a jeweled cask

How high the gulls fly
O'er Ilay
How sad the farm lad
deep in play
Felt like a grain on your sand

How well the sheep's bell
music makes
Roving the cliff
when fancy takes
Felt like a tide left me here

How blessed the forest
with birdsong
How neat the cut peat
laid so long
Felt like a seed on your land

Leitch

He came into town with his mandolin
Calling all the people and they came to him
He said, "I wanna hear all that's pretty"
He said, "I wanna hear all that's nice"

They laughed at him with his mandolin
They left him there with his funny grin
He said, "I wanna hear all that's pretty"
He said, "I wanna hear all that's nice"

The children of the town then came to him
Magically called with his mandolin
He said, "D'you wanna hear all that's pretty"
He said, "D'you wanna hear all that's nice"

They smiled at him with his mandolin
Their eyes like his were sparkling
He said, "I wanna hear all that's pretty"
He said, "I wanna hear all that's nice"
They said, "D'you wanna hear all that's pretty?"
They said, "D'you wanna hear all that's nice?"

I can see by your eyes you're a good man,
and the sparkle of the ring on your hand.
You have a muzzled dancing monkey,
a little cup in a hairy hand.

(I'll) bring cheese with me.
Won't you bring bread and have some wine?
Break cheese with me.
Won't you break bread and have some wine?

A goat skinned tamborine
what sites that has seen
Blazing eyes of dances
daughters of tinker queens.

(I'll) bring cheese with me.
Won't you bring bread and have some wine?
Break cheese with me.
Won't you break bread and have some wine?

Ya hang your cloak in a gypsy fashin.
I see a scar of an ancient lashing.
Born a babe in Macedonia
to the shounds of seas a-crashing.

Break cheese with me.
Won't you break bread and have some wine?
Break cheese with me.
Won't you break bread and have some wine?

I can see by your eyes you're a good man,
and the sparkle of the ring on your hand.
You have a muzzled dancing monkey,
a little cup in a hairy hand.

I can see by your eyes you're a good man,
and the sparkle of the ring on your hand.
You have a muzzled dancing monkey,
a little cup in a hairy hand.

Fine rock pooling coast
this starfish on the toast
the men in the crabbing boats they cry

Far across the harbor
and 'round the sandy cove
the shepard with his pipe and sheepy drove

big cloud tumbling high
the amazing flying sky
how the gulls are pillaging the town

fan faring daffodilly
trumpetingly small
all along the bathing hut wall

far across the empty beach
the tide has left this world
old men in tweed find study there

Holding whelks and periwinkles
tingling in his hand
little does he know they hold him too

Fine rock pooling coast
this starfish on the coast
the men in the crabbing boat they cry....

Come all ye starry starfish
living in the deep blue sea
crawl to me i have proposition to make thee
would you walk the north sea floor
to Belgium from England
Bring me word of a banjo man
With a tattoo on his hand.

The spokesman of the starfish
spoke as spokesman should
"If'n you met our fee then
certainly we would,
If you cast a looking-glass
upon the scallopped sand
You'll have word o' this banjo man
with a tattoo on his hand."

"Come ye starry starfish
I know your ways are caped
maybe its because your astrologically shaped,
Converse with the herring shoals
as I know you can
Bring me word o' the banjo man
with a tattoo on his hand."

The eldest of the starfish
spoke, after a sigh,
"Youthfull as you are young man
you have a 'Wisdom Eye';
Surely you must know a looking-glass
is made from sand?
These youngfish are fooling you
about this banjo man."



"Come then aged starfish
Riddle me no more,
for news I am weary
and my heart is sore;
All on the silent seashore,
help me if you can,
Tell to me if you know
of this banjo man."

"All through the seven oceans
I am a star, most famed,
Many 'leggys' have I lost
and many have I gained,
Strange to say quite recently
I've been to Fleming Land
And if you are courteous
I'll tell you all I can."

"You have my full attention"
I answered him with glee,
His brother stars were twinkling
in the sky above the sea
So I sat there with rapt
attention, on the sand,
very anxious for to hear
of the banjo man.

"I have seen this tattooed hand
through a ship port-hole,
Steaming on the watery main
through the waves so cold,
Heard his tinkling banjo and
his voice so grand
but you must come to Belgium
to shake his tattooed hand."

"Gladly would I come oh
gladly would I go,
Had I not my work to do
and my face to show,
I rejoice to know he's well
but I must go inland,
thank you for the words you brought
of the banjo man."

I walked along the evening sand
as charcoal clouds did shift
revealing the moon shining
on the pebble drift
Contemplating every other word
the starfish said
whistly winds they filled my dreams
in my dreaming bed.