Sailor And The Dancer Lyrics - Incredible String Band

Beneath some shaded planet 

Before this earth was born 

We came together 

And we danced in the early dawn 

For my hands contain ten dances 

That shall bear us into the night 

Into the sea 

And the moon's morning light 

Night mimed a bow and broke into the day 

Fair sailors and their cautious friends 

Smiled on the sea 

That reflected all their gazes 

And danced with the air 

The breezes filled the sails 

High against the quay 

High on the limpid waves the ship it did fly 

Rising as a condor into the silvery sky 

Passing through the arches that begin his earth