Lyrics Lordly Nightshade - The Incredible String Band

Lordly Nightshade

Captured by Hitler with Oliver Twist in the tower
Guards say here’s pens and paper just sit down and work for an hour
O, Goodness, how can we escape?
but it’s not worthwhile
All I can do is smile
Down gallons of glandular corridors of the dark castle
The pompous old bellman is tolling one bell
At bathtime the hippies in chains they are crossing the hall
Where Hitler is making his new film about it all
We slip trough a pew and escape but I just don’t know
All I can do is grow
Tell me more, what then?
Down Main Street I go on a duffel-coat hoping instead
For a little room, yawn, I’m so tired with this big bag of coal on my head
It’s a top hat I’m trying to sell or a lesson to learn
Vaguely seeking some fire to burn
While a whole group of middle-aged persons with dwarfish expressions and tinned
conversations in Sunday blessed blue
Standing around for a photograph, watch the cuckoo
Do you need any coal?
But it doesn’t appear that they do
Then I offered my throat to the wolf but I just can’t die
All I can do is fly
Tell me more, what then?
Safe and secure in the skirts of the midsummer wood
Cooking soup with stale words and fresh meanings, it tastes so good
The green wolf with his bunch of red roses is slinking away
All on a summer’s day