| «Macbeth»
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| Said an apparition «Shall never vanquished be until»
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| Said the apparition
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| «Great Birnam Wood to High Dunsinane Hill
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| Shall come against him. |
| Mac said «That will
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| Never be, that’ll never be
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| I will not be afraid of death and bane
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| Till Birnam Forest comes to Dunsinane.»
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| Macduff
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| Marchin' with his army
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| Came toward Birnham Wood. |
| Macbeth
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| Waited in his castle
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| And Malcolm said «Let evr’y soldier hew him
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| Down a bough and bear it before him,»
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| Macbeth that day was heard to say
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| «I will not be afraid of death and bane
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| Till Birnam Forest comes to Dunsinane.»
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| Macbeth
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| Listened to a servant
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| «I look’d t’ward Birnam and anon»
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| Said the wretched servant
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| «Methought the wood began to move
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| May you see it coming, I say a moving grove.»
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| Then quoth the Scot «The Spirit said ‘Fear not
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| Till Birnam Wood do come to Dunsinane'
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| And now a wood comes towards Dunsinane.»
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| «Macbeth»
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| Said another apparition «Macbeth, beware Macduff. |
| Beware!»
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| Said another apparition
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| «Be bloody, bold aqnd resolute and laugh top scorn
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| The power of man, for none of woman born
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| Shall harm Macbeth» (did this disarm Macbeth!)
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| He said «Swords I smile at, weapons laugh to scorn
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| Brandished by a man that’s of a woman born.»
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| Macbeth
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| Fighting in a battle
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| Sighted Macduff who said «Despair»
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| Then (to put it my way)
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| «Now's the time for you to be a wary ‘un:
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| I wasn’t really born — it was a Caesarian.»
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| Macbeth is said to have lost his head
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| But he never was afraid of death and bane
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| Till Birnam Forest came to Dunsinane |
Song information On this page you can read the lyrics of the song Dunsinane Blues (After Macbeth) , by - Cleo Laine. Song from the album Wordsongs, in the genre