Lyrics Dunsinane Blues (After Macbeth) - Cleo Laine

Dunsinane Blues (After Macbeth)

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