Roy Harper

I'm getting rolled on my Acapulco gold Waitin' for my lady waitin' for my lady She's over the range in the kitchen Making something strange Baking the afghani baking the afghani And later on we'll get em off And get it on beneath the hideaway You know I've j...

Stain-glass people filling the sooty city but he's sleeping Ageing raver part-time shaver ageing raver Eight in the morning daydreams are forming but he's sleeping Ageing raver part-time shaver ageing raver He's a younger version of a face upon a picture ins...

Goodbye free Ireland Try again soon The tommies and sirens Are wolves in the moon Devouring your children With the law's empty spoon; They've no time for talking Who are calling the tune Your spirit is proven There's no need to die For nationalist slogan Or Re...

The kettle's on, the sun has gone, another day She offers me Tibetan tea on a flower tray She's at the door, she wants to score She dearly needs to say I loved you a long time ago, you know Where the wind's own 'Forget me nots' blow But I just couldn't...

Lonely faces Empty spaces Hiding places Nowhere to be Growing skylines Spreading street signs........Jesus freakers All in straight lines.........Strange believers More every days...............Too many speakers All in the way But it's all the same the world o...

Big fat silver aeroplane is shufflin' through the sky Full of big fat people it's a wonder you can fly I don't like you And you wanna know the reason why It's because I don't Eternal East-West hedge walker turn the Sunday joint... Laughing gas is more than m...

Black clouds are hanging From a patch of blue sky We're walking together My lover and I Like we've been in love forever Her soft heart beats a path Wynds right out of my sight The dusty days walk To our love in the night Our beautiful thoughts lie together...

~~~~♫♫♫ ~~~~ The rain falls like diamonds Pinpricks the still waters And spreadeagles its laughter Across the green sheet of The sleeping sea ~~~~♫♫♫ ~~~~ 

Pretty little china girl Tiny oriental pearl Hold me in your dragon magic Willow pattern smile How does it feel? Is it unreal? And the other side of the plane Pieces of my heart somewhere Locked inside your raven hair Won't you love me? Don't you care? Need t...

ECT today my friends ECT today ECT today my friends to help you on your way Treatment! Treatment! The doctor says I'm getting better Less resplendent - more despondent Psychiatry can't be wrong You're all right now but not for long Padded cell today my friend...

I thought I heard the sound of my name and I looked back down behind me And with hair like the ripened wheat she came, sure as the west wind to find me And just for a moment I wished my life to see our friends all around us And I turned to her but I held my br...

Davey, oh Davey With seashells on our ears We spun a web of voices We danced a day of years Yesterday marooned us Making for today We spun along times tide line As he washed us both away 

I was the master's best friend He was the only man I knew It's been a tall harvest And he turned us all on two but my lips are sealed by history And my tale I cannot tell My name is Judas Iscariot My home address is Hell So baby don't you grieve after me No n...

The bumble bees stumble The butterflies tumble The birds on the water-line stare The heavens have crowned her The star grass grows round her Her dreams fill the very still air Just east of the sun Where our loving was done I can still see her breasts on the...

I've been walking all over the place, now I'm walking back again I've been smiling all over my face, I wonder where the hell I've been? And won't you take me by the end, divided by my brain I'm feeling all the Saturday of failing to explain. And I've been wal...

Baby, won't you play with me Games that no one else can see? Leanin' over out my window Flashing me a mini flower show Steal away from mummy, oh there's my little girl On the pillow of my tummy give my hair a curl Run your fingers under and over, make us a li...

We're just spinning leaves In the flight of dawn Little girl Falling through an eternal horizon of time But as we lie here I'd like to think That all we've got will be ours forever Don't you think we're forever I can hear a voice On the wings of my dream Lit...

Hey Francesca, you gave me no warning... Hey Francesca, tiptoes in the morning... Thanks for leaving the sunshine Thanks for leaving me Thanks for being all mine Thanks for being free Hey Francesca…. 

Greek Street Freak suite I'll moonbathe on your grassy banks Walk the ever endless planks Of screwing you Electric trees and photographs Of mummy's one-time blue-eyed one In birthday suit and tinsel bristols Oh what exclamation marks The difference of their l...

Well, if you're travelin' in the north country fair, Where the winds hit heavy on the borderline, Remember me to one who lives there. She once was a true love of mine. Well, if you go when the snowflakes storm, When the rivers freeze and summer ends, Please s...

Oh girlie with your brown eyes And your long flowing hair With the lantern shining through your lips I slip on through my stare With your pink glass sunken past the walls You kiss my thistle eyes Can't you take me in Loch Ness Have your hair soaked in crystal...

Little goldfish in your bowl I've dug you all day long Yellow scales arising Through the ceiling of my song Little bee sat on your flower A-swaying in the breeze Funny little furry voice A-buzzing through the leaves ~~~~♫♫♫ ~~~~ Little goldfish in your bowl...

Your conscience rolls in torrents down each side of your face. Your chair is full of silence, your hand is full of lace. You say that you should have been by him when the bullets laid his head. Strange it's always the living who fear the idea of the dead. Good...

Last night I wasn't sleeping I knew it was my last I've just been lying thinking Reliving all my past My family and friends have left My children are all lost And now I'm standing in a death cell As the sands of time fall fast My poor heart it is thum...

Hell's Angels If you think you need a better deal why don't you just take one Like the Hell's Angels Put your foot down, let's get out of this town Fancy seeing all of you here, well I don't know Fancy seeing all of you here Dressed up in your government gear...

Take a look down your highway Tell me what d'you see Well if you're down my way It could well be me Stood on your corner I'm nearly down on one knee Can you hear me calling for you So damn easy to see And it can't be forever And it won't be for long So don't y...

The sun on her face gently plays The breeze of her song softly sways She tells me in so many ways She's mine for the rest of my days I need some loving Yes I need some loving Oh I need some loving Yes I need some loving The dust of the world is my load Yes I...

The judge sits on his great assize Twelve men wise with swollen thighs Who never ever told no lies Whose minds were ever such a size Whose lives were ever such a prize Whose brains bred answers just like flies Whose answers stalked their thoughts like sp...

How does it feel to be completely unreal How does it feel to be a voter How does it feel to be a voluntary heel I wonder who's it is I see you queuing up outside Saint Peter's gate, You can feel bonafide if you ride with the tide But it's not real How does it...

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Far across the ocean In the land of look and see There once was a time For you and me Where the winds blow sweetly And the easy seas flow still And where the barefoot dream of life Can laugh and cry its fill Where slot machine confusions An...

No good pretending girl You were for spending The rest of your days round my neck Well I'm not that strong And my time isn't long And my love isn't something to wreck I wish we could share But you'll never be there (with me) Having those kids with one man Milk...

I was taking the air one sunny evening Watching everything being - happily In the fire the restless sun was turning In my body the pages of my life And I saw them all soaring past From the first to the very last Through the surging crests of the waves Of a mem...

I heard the song birds singing in the trees above my bed In the valley of the shadow of the sea of living dead I see the same old smells aboard my ship of shapelessness Meandering suspended in amorphous tastelessness I hear the happy people striking down thei...

I once held a lantern of love in my hands She was all I could see Kicking the brown leaves of childhoold around us We danced the deep sea That welled from the spring of the boy that I was Held in her flame Feeling her learning Watching her burning To see the f...

a) Poem b) Modal Song parts I to IV c) Front Song d) Middle Song e) End Song (Front Song reprise) There once was a man from the old stone age And he used to follow the weather But now he's got hung up on filling a page Upon whether to go or together And he's...

I said, "Wait a minute lady, aren't you the one I've just been making?" "I made you" she said "so sit down and listen I brought you in from the ice into these dreams of down home cooking It wasn't my idea to call it civilization" And in a flash I saw the trut...

I came from a house where a war, was run And I became my own law, and won Hollow victories galore - return Better leave me before - you're one Some day I'll find the right lady Some day she'll come and find me Oh, come on, girl, I'll make you feel easy now Ma...

I never know what kind of day it is on my battlefield of ideals But the way she touches and the way it feels, must be just how it heals Ah but it's got a little better since I let her sundance I never know what time of year it is living on top of the fire...

Oh mister station master i dont dig you And i'm going out shoppin for a igloo Coz standing on your station Is an antarctic exploration And the grim scene every morning to be dragged through Mister station master mr mundane With your morning paper man clock on...

So now you tell me that you're leaving, my friend And I can but leave you Into your world blowing There isn't time to say goodbye Nor would I ever wish to You brought me a very many good dreams, my friend And I'll smile beside you For I know I saw you The two...

If you're travelin' in the North Country Fair Where the winds hit heavy on the borderline Remember me to one who lives there She once was a true love of mine Well, if you go when the snowflakes storm When the rivers freeze and summer ends Please see if she's...

Why throw flowers on my grave when I'm dead? Why paint pictures of with the blood that I shed Why try to copy any word of what I said When I hated you all when I was living Why do I waste time trying to create Why do I still try to communicate When you do not...

Welcome home, you total stranger Welcome to the Fountainhead Welcome home, there is no danger You don't need your gun, man, we're already dead. Welcome home, the war is over Welcome back, the coast is clear Welcome home, a Johnny soldier We treat you h...

There's a house on a hillside in a picture book Where he stands with his mother as I stop and look He's a child of the northlands with his long golden hair And his smile running wild In the snow by the campfire where the nights are long You can hear his daddy...

I'm just a sophisticated beggar living underneath your summer day Counting all my blessings as I'm counting all the money I've accumulated on my way I don't want your plastic Gods Tin-pot religions and silly ideas All I want is your money I listen to you but I...

Once I was anothers lover Now I am my own Trying to call myself a brother Living here alone Maybe if you came to see me Wishing I wasn't so blind Sitting here thinking to be free Maybe we'd all change our mind She is kind and beautiful I am young and strong W...

All along the ancient wastes the thin reflections spin That gather all the times and tides at once we love within That build the edges round the shrouds that cloud the setting sun And carry us to other days and other days to one And full the single stillne...

I thought you had passed, but you caught me at last, Where you know I could never be worn. And now that you're here, and you finally hear, It's so clear on the wings of the dawn. Where your smile starts to shine, as you breath in the brine Of the spray on the...

Seems that God's little mother Is bringing his son up so right She's wearing the heart of America Where daddy is just 'out of sight' She's got Al Capone's ghost in his diaper And Sitting Bull made out of wax And hard plastic dolls that cry 'mama' Whose eyes cl...

Sweeping skies and breezey greens, can maybe show us what it means, To feel the worlds, imagination. I'll come and see you yesterday, we'll close our eyes and drift away, Can we be real, without escaping? Twelve hours of sunset, six thousand miles. Illusions...

Nobody's got any money in the Summer Oh dear me, what a terrible drag I couldn't get very much numb-er than in Summer Beseeching the rent-man To be soft as he can 'Cause I've got a little money coming when I sell my MBE All the folkie student population weari...