Song information On this page you can find the lyrics of the song Dunsinane Blues (After Macbeth), artist - Cleo Laine. Album song Wordsongs, in the genre Date of issue: 31.12.1985
Record label: A Verve Label Group Release;
Song language: English
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 |