Lordly Nightshade Lyrics - Incredible String Band

Captured by Hitler with Oliver Twist in the tower 

Guards say, "Here's pens and paper, just sit down and work for an hour" 

Oh, 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 bath time there's 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