Robin Williamson: accoustic guitar, oud, mandolin, electric fiddle, alto flute, flute, whistle, congas and vocals
Mike Heron: accoustic and electric guitar, sitar, organ, piano, string scores and vocals
Malcolm LeMaistre: vocals
Stan Lee: bass, pedal steel, moog programming and a bit of vocal
Jack Ingram: drums
Graham Forbes: electric guitar
Danny thompson played string bass on Dreams of No Return
Maker Of Islands
By Mike Heron
I do my job and it's pleasing to me
It's getting so I can sail upon the roughest sea
On the roughest sea I do alright
On the roughest sea I do alright
But when my work is over and done
I get to being a lonely one
Need someone to take the wheels at night
Someone to navigate till light comes
But most of all I need
A maker of islands
Rested in the golden sunlight
Where the seas are kind
She could make me islands
For my peace of mind
If I could only see her
Look into her eyes
Then I'd lie easy, I'd lie easy, I'd lie easy
In my soul
Cold February
By Robin Williamson
As I beside some winter's fire
Sat writing words strange and steady
Amongst my own internal choir
Came voices to my mind unready
Of those who died on either side
While friends cry o're their bones unburied
Go sighing through the north east winds
These cold days of February
Some clerk with papers and his pen
Some banker with his poison pity
Some captain careless of his men
These fan the flames that maim the cities
And bigots in the name of Christ
By thorny paths obscure and muddy
Can fear to roam through years of cold
Bewailing how their hands are bloody
Whether they were from here or there
Their race and place I would not be heeding
The men who caused such bitterness
If hearts they have let their hearts be bleeding
Who neither for age nor the young child
Would turn the shot of the arms they carried
Go bear the guilt a weary ways
For the cold days of February
Glancing Love
By Malcolm LeMaistre / Mike Garson
You used to lie out in some persian garden
You strode cat lithe the streets of New York
You saw me silent eyed aching in the front row
Heart of fire
To ease your cool desire
Heartless love come and lie beside me
And I'll try to find your glancing love
You flashed cruising through the glances
Cast by chances of romances
With noncholance you cast your gown
Writhing to the ground wildest dream
You stretched away unseen
You used to lie out in some persian garden
You strode cat lithe the streets of New York
You seemed so serene as you glided from the screen
Angel eyes
I eased back amongst the sighs
Heartless love come and lie beside me
And I'll try to find your glancing love
Dreams Of No Return
By Robin Williamson
Dreams of no return
Waking in the early dawn
Dreams of no return
Waking in the early dawn
To whom I sourly yearned in my weakest spell
But what I could not know you could not show me
Old hotel the walls weep and the door leans
The blackbird quits the eaves
And the lonesome spider sings
Saw my sweet and soothing prayer
Was air
Why should you care
I never saw the tomb you they laid
There was already too much shade
What could it bring
What if you know
I need no hand of yours
But still I feel you kiss
While I have words to sing
Perhaps you treasure nothing
From before
In the time I had no friends
I held your picture like a tongueless bell
When I really saw I was wrong
I wrote this song to seem a fond farewell
I've been in the north west world
Looking out on an endless view
When you were any reason why
Was I really any use to you
Dumb Kate
By Mike Heron
Dumb Kate she's no Indian no Mexican neither
Come up from San Diego long ago
Settled in Nome Alaska, best place that she could be
Half the people there froze right to the bone
Warm'em up Kate
Nobody does business like Kate do
Dumb as she is
She's so dumb she don't know just when to stop
Dumb as she is
Oh oh she don't quit givin' it
No no she don't quit givin' it
If the corn liquor don't get to you
Kate will
She used to serve tables down at the Last Post grill room
Where they chewed on the beef with a lean and a hunted jaw
While waiting for that slow train
Gooing where the sun is glowing
She'll keep your blood just moving right till the thaw
By Mike Heron
Lyrics: Mike Heron
Music: Mike Heron, except
Sardis - Robin Williamson and
Port of Sybaris - Graham Forbes
Sardis(Oud Tune)
Lesbos-Dawn
Lesbos-Evening
Aegean Sea
Dreams Fade
Port of Sybaris
Go down Sybaris
Huntress
Hold my gaze
I sailed out from Sardis just one day past
Ithkos Ithkos
Sailed ot meet the dawn on Lesbos fair
Ithkos Ithkos
My marchant's task on this isle is done
I call soft evening forht
To ease up my care
Aphrodite's temple is sweet with sandorac
Bright torches start the night to praise her
Ithkos wipes his mouth and drops the wineskin
Salt wind fresh in his mind
Bark brown eyes has Ithkos
From Sardis newly come
The carmined lips of Lesbos fail to please
And through the noisy night
Just one plaintive song will match his heart
The beautiful Aegean sea
Brings out a weeping need in me
I can't stand by
Like a thief in the night
While that aching lovely light
Shines on
Dreams fade now, a new day rings
Trade pulls the galleon ever on
To rich Sybaris, port of our call
Beyond the blue Aegean
How sweet the sight of peopled shores
To a wanderer as I
Kown from here to Lydia far
Pale Sybaris knows not my tread
And fear stalks in my heart
For reason unknown
Gotta come right out and say it
Pale Sybaris I bear you great scorn
Tlakin' 'bout your fluted pillars and your muted life
It's worse to me
Than Death's own chariot rollin'
Oh hold my gaze light of day
That my thoughts they will not stray
To Hippolyta
The vows that set her free
Denied me
It was right there in Sybaris famed
That I met with her who's named
Hippolyta
Oh hold my gaze bring not the sight
Of that awful wondrous night
Far outside the city walls
Hte Huntress Dance does call
Hippolyta
And the vows that set her free
Denied me
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