
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 |
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