| Oldfield
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| Sunlight falling bright over the village garden walls
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| Moonlight showers gold where living water falls
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| People walk in splendour under trees hung in starlight
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| Candlelight lawns sweep down to the river that ripples on pebbles of turquoise
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| Fountains of golden light burst in quavers that float among the stars
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| The tables are laid with fruits of the wine and cedar from Samarkand
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| The golden gates are open wide for the people all over the land
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| A thousand dancing chandeliers shine in my lady’s chamber
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| My lord comes swaying through the hall with a goblet of shining amber
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| Then nectar and brandy, wine and mead come flowing from shimmering springs
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| They all menuet to a string quartet and the Marquis’s daughter shall sing
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| Gentle maidens walking in the garden
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| While they’r courted by the knights from the palace of love
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| They are all dressed in white with flowers of palest colour
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| They are all singing songs to the yellow moon above
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| Come to the Ball my love, sip sweet ambrosia
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| Tip in the forest Titania my love
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| Would you like brandy wine? |
| Shall we go now and dine?
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| We’ll do the merry minuet till the yellow moon has set
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| We shall dance through the midsummer night
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| Come my pretty Oberon trip, trip, trip
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| Come and sing a summer song trip, trip
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| I know a bank where cowslips trip
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| Whereon the wild thyme sits trip, trip
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| Dance in the midsummer night
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| Come my pretty puck and squeeze this magic flower
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| In the eyes of lovers in the midnight hour
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| This a flower of wonder is a magic seed
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| When they shall awake lay heaven at their feet
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| Would you like brandy wine?
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| Shall we go now and dine?
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| We’ll do the merry minuet till the yellow moon has set
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| We shall dance through the midsummer night |