Marc Bolan 1965-1972 | Marc Bolan 1973-1977
Walking in the woods one day
I met a
man who said that he was magic
Wonderful things he said
Pointed hat upon his head
Knew why people laughed and
cried
Why the lived and why the died
Shadows followed him around
He walked the woods without a single sound
Golden eagles at his door
Cats and bats played on the floor
Silver sunlight in
his eyes
The wizard turned and melted in the sky.
You've heard about the fairy land
Where people walk hand in hand
I tell you, I know where it is
It's past the apples of the sun
Near the land of the Golden One
Far beyond the rising' sun
You pass the oceans of this land
Past the man with a golden hand
Who smiles as you watch the dragons fly
And play upon the golden shore
And bang upon the magic door
Behind, where some people never die
Hey
When finally you make the scene
You see things you never dream
You thought they were only in you mind
Where unicorns and young gods play
From the break of dawn till the end of
day
Always happy and kind, in their minds
Everywhere I go people question me
She read my head and I can see
Philosophizing mad psychiatrist
Closing of my mind in darkness
Beware of the third degree.
Everywhere I go people follow me
They look, they smile, they cannot see.
I am too much for them to take in
The only say that I am faking
Beware of the third degree.
Everywhere I go people always say
It's sad to see him act this way
Philosophizing mad psychiatrist
Just closing of my mind in darkness
Beware of the third degree, yeah
Sanity baby is all I got
I'm as sane as you believe it or not
Philosophizing mad psychiatrist
Just closing of my mind in darkness
Everywhere I go people laugh at me.
His schooling days were ruling days to show
it
To all the people eagerly wanting to blow
it
Crazy just to see how foolish I can be
If he happens to be a San Francisco poet
Hey there Frisco poetically speaking
The days of the beatniks are gone
Hey there Frisco poetically speaking
The Bible's all written wrong.
His schooling days were ruling days to show
it
To all the people eagerly wanting to blow
it
Crazy just to see how foolish I can be
If he happens to be a San Francisco poet
Met a man, he was nice
Said his name was "Paradise"
Didn't realize at the time
That his face and mind were mine
Hippy Gumbo he's no good
Chop him
up for firewood
It seemed
good, and it seemed right
That I should dig him on the
night
But in the morning with the sun
He pulled an
automatic gun
He blew my soul he blew my brain
He
split, I could not do the same
Hippy Gumbo he's no good
Chop him
up for firewood
Hippy Gumbo he's no good
Chop him up and burn the wood
Desdemona just because
You're the daughter of a man
He may be rich.
He's in a ditch.
He does not understand
Just how to move or rock and roll
To the conventions of the young
Desdemona, Desdemona, Desdemona
Desdemona, Desdemona, Desdemona
Lift Up your skirt and fly.
Just because my friend and I
Got a juke joint by the Seine
Does not mean
I'm past fourteen
And cannot play the game
I'm glad I split and got a pad
On Boulevard Rue Fourteen
Desdemona, Desdemona, Desdemona
Desdemona, Desdemona, Desdemona
Lift Up your skirt and fly.
Just because Toulouse Lautrec
Painted some chick in the rude
Doesn't give you the right
To steal my night
And leave me naked in the nude
Well just because the touch of your hand
Can turn me on just like a stick.
Desdemona, Desdemona, Desdemona
Desdemona, Desdemona, Desdemona
Lift Up your skirt and speak.
Sara Crazy Child is devouring all the street
With her pastel tortured dress
And her seductive bongo beat
Her skin's wild like the olives
And her Body's bitter sweet
Still she's only just thirteen
And she's forgotten how to dream.
Her brother the Juke Box King
With his venom mouthy sting
And his knowledge twisted hair
And his 1920's stare
He lives beneath the roadway
In a Minotaur's lair
In summer he's a young boy
But in winter he's a bear
Broken dusty mother
Her face melted just like wax
Her once gazelle like features
Bloodied by the age axe
Sepia picture postcard
Of the twosome of their home
Soulessly they submitted to
The guillotine of their own.
Petals and flowers...
Petals and flowers...
Petal and flowers...
In the park, getting dark, eating the heat.
There's an eye in the sky, melting
your feet.
You see a chick, who starts to nick the
petals and flowers.
She starts to joke and then provoke the
Dance of the Hours.
It's all down to a midsummer night's scene.
It's all down to a Shakespearian dream.
In her face there's a place disfigured with
love.
Her hands are white, like the night encased
in a glove.
She starts to swing and watches you nick
petals and flowers.
She starts to joke and then evokes the
Dance of the Hours.
It's all down to a midsummer night's scene.
It's all down to a Shakespearian dream.
Dug-a-redug and dug-a-redug redug
O Debora
You look like a zebra
Your sunken face is like a galleon
Clawed with mysteries of the spanish maine
O Debora
O Debora
Always dressed like a conjurer
It's fine to see your young face hiding
'Neath the stallion that I'm riding
Debora.
O Debora
You look like a stallion
O Debora
You look like a stallion
Mountain eyes, peeping out of his head
Sipping tea, composing in his bed
A hundred hands working on a musical of
old
Debussy and Mendelssohn
Handel and Dvorak of old
Child star protégé of Mister
Gormez
Who said you'd go far
Child star, they do not see just what a
precious gem you'd be
Sad to see them watching you fade into
invisibility
Twelve years old, your elfish fingers kiss
your Beethoven hair
The awesome people stare
They're unaware of all the angel sounds
they see and hear
Debussy and Mendelssohn
Handel and Dvorak of old
Child star protégé of Mister
Gormez
Who said you'd go far
Child star and when you died at just thirteen
they wept and wrung their hair
Sad to see them mourning you when you are
there
Within the flowers and the trees
Child star etc.
Met a woman she's spouting prose
She's got luggage
eyes and a roman nose
Her body is slung from side to side
Need a lift she
said much obliged
I'm riding piggy-back
Then I come to her shack
We go
inside the place is a mess
She said my name's the liquid poetess
She
unties her mouth
And her buckskin dress
She drinks from a bottle
labeled tenderness
I'm in one hand in the other's a can
She puts me in the can
And smiles through the wall
I got the horror's cos I'm one inch tall
Next thing I
knows a girl by my side
Dressed in a bay leaf she's trying to hide
I asked
her name she said Germaine
Do the rock do the one inch rock.
Small girl with the smiling gibbon
Bridled with an orchid ribbon
His curved brow in Scarlatti fashion
Boots that ride the night sky eagle.
An old crone squirms upon a cushion
Made from Madras silk and satin
Her steel eyes hold a scimitar passion
For the skull hewn in Scarlatti fashion.
A cobra seer with the punctured ear
Slaughtered a Malayan sun bear
Night stood erect with bronzen haunches
Zapped the seer and gave the bear back
to us
Salamanda Palaganda
Oh Palomino Blue
Salamanda Palaganda
June's buffalo too
In the Parisian zoo.
Aah-ha, Aah-ha
Pewter suitor
tangled in the bracken
Dancing daily with his gaily
wavy baton
The wild cat wishing of
The hissing
wheels of fortune that are known
To rise beside us like
A picture painted heartache of the home
La La La La La La
Warlord of the Royal Crocodiles
Handsome as life
He's our lord and we trust in him
To move like the wind
As our friend and guardian.
The elements and oceans congregate on his
brow
And he stalks in style like a royal crocodile.
His chariot legs
Are tree green and autumn brown
His crown of dusk is a glimpse of things
to be.
In palaces and temples near the dwellings
of man
If he can he'll smile 'cos he's a Royal
Crocodile.
Light all the fires
It's the King of the Rumbling Spires
Light all the fires
It's the King and he's coming home
wo-ow
We're so windy fair
Portrait of my young
soul
Mighty eagles pair
On the peace of your hair
Light all the fires,
It's the King of the Rumbling Spires
Light all the fires,
It's the King and he's coming home
wo-ow
Doi doi doi...
Her face was like a cult to me
Her limbs were fierce in symmetry
It throws me into song
The throng have done us wrong
And away she goes, her toes leave gold
Her horn of youth has passed behold
It throws me into song
The throng have done us wrong
Do-oo you remember?
Do-oo you remember?
Pleasures of love
Treasures of love
The voice of light denounce the night
Sweet pilgrims climb the chilly heights
It throws me into song
The throng have done us wrong
Do-oo you remember?
Do-oo you remember?
Pleasures of love
Treasures of love
Do-oo you remember?
Do-oo you remember?
Pleasures of love
Treasures of love
By the Light of a Magical Moon
I'm gonna dance with my princess
By the light of a magical moon.
As I go along my way
I say hey-hey
I'm gonna talk with the elders
And tell all of our hearts
That is good
I'll barefoot dance with my baby
By the light of a magical moon.
When I slay the darkest day
Then we can play
'Till that deep and joyous day
We'll dance and pray.
Find a little wood
And have a little sleep sleep there
Find a little wood
And have a little sleep sleep there
Find a little wood
And have a little sleep sleep there
Like the sun and the sea
You soon wash away all cares
Find a little stream
And have a little dream dream there
Find a little stream
And have a little dream dream there
Find a little stream
And have a little dream dream there
Like the windy moon
You'll soon shed all your cares ah
Love is like a beautiful girl
Who smiles for you
Love is like a beautiful girl
Who smiles for you
Love is like a beautiful girl
Who smiles for you
Boppa oo mow mow boppa
Oh baby, ooh, oh baby, oh baby baby
Oh baby baby, oh baby baby
Ahh, I want you for my woman
Oh baby baby, oh baby baby, oh
Well I saw a girl yesterday
Thought my life that she was my wife
Once in my life
Well I saw a girl yesterday
Thought my life that she was my wife
Once in my life
And I'm singing
Oh baby baby, oh baby baby
Oh baby baby, Ahhh
I want you for my woman
Oh baby baby, Oh baby baby, yeah
Well I saw a girl yesterday
Thought my life that she was my wife
Once in my life
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Ride A White
Swan
Ride it on out
Like a bird in the sky ways
Ride it on out
Like you were a bird
Fly it all out
Like an eagle in a sunbeam
Ride it all out
Like You were a bird
Wear a tall hat
Like a Druid in the old days
Wear a your hair long babe
You can't go wrong
Catch a bright star and place it on your
forehead
Say a few spells and a-there you go
Take a black cat
Sit it on your shoulder
And in the morning you'll know all you
know.
Da da dee dee da (repeated 6 times)
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Is It Love?
Is it love
Is it love
Is it love that makes us rock
We're gonna rock
We're gonna rock with love
Is it love
That makes us rock.
Well she's my woman of gold
And she's not very old u-huh-huh
Well she's my woman of gold
And she's not very old u-huh-huh
I don't mean to be bold
But may I hold your hand
Well she ain't no witch
And I love the way she twitch u-huh-huh
Well she ain't no witch
And I love the way she twitch u-huh-huh
I'm a laborer of love
In my Persian gloves u-huh-huh
Well she's faster than most
And she lives on the coast u-huh-huh
Well she's faster than most
And she lives on the coast u-huh-huh
I'm her two-penny prince
And I give her hot love u-huh-huh
Well she ain't no witch
And I love the way she twitch u-huh-huh
Well she ain't no witch
And I love the way she twitch u-huh-huh
I'm her two-penny prince
And I give her hot love
La la la, la la la la la
La la la, la la la la la
La la la, la la la la la
There's a man on the corner
Got his head in his hat
He dances like a gypsy
so he must be where it's at.
Do the rock
do the woodland rock
Let it all hang out,
Everybody shout
Do the rock - do the woodland rock.
The wind is the thing
That makes the body swing
It brings you up and takes you down
And treats you like a king
Do the rock
Do the woodland rock
Let it all hang out,
Everybody shout
Do the rock - do the woodland rock.
Met a little momma
She was sweet, she was gone
She's got legs like a railroad
Face like a song
Do the rock
Do the woodland rock
Let it all hang out,
Everybody shout
Do the rock - do the woodland rock.
Wind is in the willows
My house is up a tree
The seas of change are flowing
I want everybody free
To do the rock - do the woodland rock
Let it all hang out,
Everybody shout
Do the rock - do the woodland rock.
Met a little momma
She was sweet, she was gone
She's got legs like a railroad
Face like a song
Do the rock
Do the woodland rock
Let it all hang out,
Everybody shout
Do the rock - do the woodland rock.
Ally bally bash bam
Rock-a-billy boom
Do the rock
Do the woodland rock
Let it all hang out,
Everybody shout
Do the rock - do the woodland rock.
The King of the Mountain Cometh
Du-duluddle, luddle, dau dau
Du-duluddle, luddle, dau, dau
Du-duluddle, luddle, dau dau
Du-duluddle, luddle, dau, dau
Ow
The King of the Mountain cometh
On
his arm there was a dove
In livery green and tapestry
clean
He called it his Falcon of Love, oh yeah
Called his Falcon of Love
Du-duluddle du doh
Du-duluddle, luddle, dau dau
Du-duluddle, luddle, dau, dau
Du-duluddle, luddle, dau dau
Du-duluddle, luddle, dau, dau
Ahhh
The Mage of the Midnight Abbey
Was
a child of fifteen years
His eyes were bored with
galactic lore
He had points upon his ears, oh yeah
Points upon his ears
Du-duluddle du doh
Du-duluddle, luddle, dau dau
Ahhh
The Wild-Witch Wizard Alicia
Was a changeling son from
Mars
He learned his song from the Cosmic Throngs
And played them on a
Fender guitar, oh yeah
And played them on a Fender guitar
Du-duluddle du doh
Du-duluddle, luddle, dau dau
Ahhh
The woman from the Plateaus of Persia
Came to sell me a
wondrous thing
In a horn of oak with a sulpherous smoke
She gave me King
Solomon's Ring, oh yeah
Gave me the magical thing
Du-duluddle, luddle, dau dau
Du-duluddle, luddle, dau, dau
Du-duluddle, luddle, dau, dau
Ow
The King of the Mountain cometh
On
his arm there was a dove
In livery green and tapestry
clean
He called it his Falcon of Love, oh yeah
Called his Falcon of Love
Du-duluddle, luddle, dau dau
Du-duluddle, luddle, dau, dau
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Get It On (Bang A Gong)
Well you're dirty and sweet
Clad in Black
Don't look back
And I love you
You're dirty and sweet oh yea.
Well you're slim and you're weak
You got the teeth
Of the Hydra upon you.
You're dirty sweet
And you're my girl.
Get It On
Bang a gong
Get It On
You're built like a car
You got a hubcap
Diamond star halo
You're built like a car
Oh yea.
You're an untamed youth
That's the truth
With your cloak full of eagles
You're dirty sweet
And you're my girl
Well you're windy and wild
You got the blues
I'm your shoes and your stockings.
You're windy and wild
Oh yeah.
You're built like a car
You got a hubcap
Diamond star halo
You're built like a car
Oh yea.
You're so sweet
You're so fine
I want you all and everything
Just to be mine
'Cos you're my baby
'Cos you're my love
Girl I'm just a Jeepster
For your love
You slide so good
With bones so fair
You've got the universe
Reclining in your hair
Just like a car
You're pleasing to behold
I'll call you Jaguar
If I may be so bold
The wild winds blow
Upon your frozen cheeks
The way you flip your hip
It always makes me weak
Your motivation
Is so sweet
Your
vibrations
Are burning up my feet
Girl I'm
just a jeepster
For your love
Girl I'm just a vampire
For your love
I'm gonna suck you.
I could have loved you girl
Like a planet
I could have chained your heart
To a star
But it really doesn't matter at all
But it really doesn't matter at all
Life's a gas. I hope it's gonna last.
I could have built a house
On the ocean
I could placed your love
In the sky
I could have turned you
into a priestess
I could have burned
Your fate in the sand.
Telegram Sam
Telegram Sam
You're my main man
Golden Nose Slim
Golden Nose Slim
I knows where you 'bin
Purple Pie Pete
Purple Pie Pete
Your lips are like lightning
Girls melt in the heat
Telegram Sam
You're my main man
Telegram Sam
You're my main man
Bobby's all right
Bobby's all right
He's a natural born poet
He's just out a sight
Jungle faced Jake
Jungle faced Jake
I say make no mistake
About Jungle Faced Jake
Automatic shoes
Automatic shoes
Give me 3-D vision
And the California blues
Me I funk but I don't care
I ain't no square with my corkscrew hair
Telegram Sam
Telegram Sam I'm a howlin' wolf
Baby I've got metal knees ooh.
Lady I'm begging' of
you please
Baby you think you're a champ but
Girl you ain't nothing' but a
raw ramp.
Lady, your lips are the most
Baby,
your mouth is like a ghost
Lady, you think you're a
champ but
Girl you ain't nothing' but a raw ramp
Woman, I love your chests ooh,
Baby, I'm crazy 'bout
your breasts
Woman, you think you're a champ but
Girl you ain't nothing'
but a raw ramp
Baby I've got metal knees ooh.
Lady I'm begging' of you
please
Baby you think you're a champ but
Girl you ain't nothing' but a raw
ramp
Baby, I love your chests ooh,
Lady, I'm
crazy 'bout your breasts
Woman, you think you're a
champ but
Girl you ain't nothing' but a raw ramp
You ain't
nothing' but a raw ramp
Standing' on a corner by my old high school,
I let this
female call me a fool
I got on my knees and begged to
the sun
And I knew that my manhood had begun
Boogie
on, electric boogie, boogie on
Embrace your brother,
dance in the mud
Like a Palomino stud.
Come along hold my hand
There was a time when everything was fine,
You got drunk on the day like it was wine,
And all the children
They put flowers in their hair
And all the grown-ups
They put daggers there instead
Yeah
Baby, I wanna walk you home
Oh baby, I wanna walk you home
There's a shadow in the basement
And I'm scared to sleep alone
Baby it doesn't everybody weep
Oh baby, doesn't everybody weep
I'd slide up there beside you, but
My nightmares are all to steep
Baby, I wanna buy you Cadillac
Oh baby, I wanna buy you Cadillac
I bought it with my soul, but
You say that you're gonna give it back
(And that's a fact)
Baby, I love you baby
I love you baby
I love you baby
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Baby Strange
I see you walking
I see you talking
With all of my friends
I'm shadowed under you're like some thunder
I wanna be your friend
I wanna call you
I wanna ball you all night long
In winds of passion my whip is lashing
I wanna get you and then
Ooh you're strange
Don't lame me baby strange
Don't lame me baby
The city's shaking
I ain't faking baby this is the end
I'm overloaded my heads exploded
I wanna get you and then
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Metal Guru
Metal Guru is it you
Metal Guru is it you
Sitting there in your armor plated chair
Metal Guru is it true
Metal Guru is it true
All alone without a telephone
Metal Guru could it be
You're gonna bring my baby to me
She'll be wild you know
A rock and roll child
Metal Guru has it been
Just like a silver-studded saber-tooth
dream
I'II be clean you know
Pollution machine
Metal Guru is it you
Metal Guru is it you
Lady
Lady, like-a-like a lady
Like I'm gonna give all my love to you
Lady, like-a-lady a lady
Like I'm gonna dance in the rain for you
Gotta feel it mama, gotta feel it mama
Gotta dream it mama, yeah-yeah
Shakin' my bones are achin'
I'm like a scampering train for you
Baby, like-a-like a baby
Like I'm gonna give all my pain to you
Gotta feel it mama, gotta feel it mama
Gotta dream it mama, yeah-yeah
Lady, lady, lady
Like-a-like a lady
Like-a-like a lady
like-a-like a lady
Ah-ah-ah-ah...
I was walking down the sky-way my way
When I saw the legs that I love
I was thinking 'bout drinking something
When I saw the legs that I love
I bought a car was a low-slung thunderwing
It moved like the sun of the dawn
My little baby, she's a tippie-toed vamperator
She moved like the sun of the dawn
woo...
Get it on right on
Do your thing O Oh Thunderwing
Do your thing O Oh Thunderwing
Yeah
Get it on right on
Well my wig-hat moves and my spaceball boots
bounce
When I hear the music I love...yeah
A soap-box cart was the start of my wandering
When I hear the music I loved...yeah
Get it on, right on
Do your thing thunderwing
Yeah
Well you can bump and grind
If it's good for your mind
Well you can twist and shout
Let it all hang out
*Chorus
But you won't fool
The children of the revolution
No, you won't fool
The children of the revolution
No, no, no
Well you can terraplane
In the falling rain
I drive a Rolls Royce
'Cos it's good for my voice *
Yeah
We've got to get together
We've got to get together
Oh yes we have
Oh yes we have
Because...
Jitterbug love has got me on the run now
Jitterbug love has got me on the run now
Here it comes again
We'll rock and roll together
We'll even stroll together
Oh yes we will
Oh yes we will
Because...
Jitterbug love has got me on the run now
Jitterbug love has got me on the run now
Here it comes again
Yeah
It's a shame in sunken rags
The way you lay me down (play me down)
It's a shame the way you hide me
Back at schoo-oo-ool
I was brave to call you names
Out in the alley-way (alley-way)
It's a shame the way you treat me
Like a fool (like a fool)
So ride on fight on
Love is gonna win it's gonna beat your
sins
Ride on fight on
Love is gonna win it's gonna beat your
sins
Oo-Ooh
Oo-Oo Oo-Oo Oo-Ooh
It's a game with broken brain
The way you smile on me (smile on me)
I'm a bird that rides upon
The wind of fools
It's a shame how you unzip my
Winters poetry
It's a shame the way you treat me
Like a foooo-ool
So ride on fight on
Love is gonna win it's gonna beat your
sins
Ride on fight on
Love is gonna win it's gonna beat your
sins
Oo-Ooh
Oo-Oo Oo-Oo Oo-Ooh
Hey hey hey
Life is the same and it always will be
Hey hey hey
As easy as picking foxes from a tree
Hey hey hey
But I can't get no satisfaction
All I want is easy action
Hey, hey, hey
Hey, hey, hey
A stud is a lamb with thoughts of a tiger
Hey, hey, hey
He moves like a cat and knows how to ride
her
Hey, hey, hey
But I can't get no satisfaction
All I want is easy action
Hey, hey, hey
Stroll On
But I can't get no satisfaction
All I want is easy action
Hey, hey, hey
A woman from the east with her headlights
shinning
Hey, hey, hey
Eased my pain and stopped my crying
Hey, hey, hey
But I can't get no satisfaction
All I want is easy action
Hey, hey, hey
And all my hair will keep her smiling
With my wondrous walk and my telephone
dialing
But I can't get no satisfaction
All I want is easy action
Hey, hey, hey
I know you're shrewd
And she's a dude
But all I want is easy action
I know you're shrewd
And she's a dude
But all I want is easy action baby
Hey, hey, hey
Stroll On
Hey, hey, hey
Hey, hey, hey
Hey, hey, hey
Baby baby I was born to boogie,
Baby baby l was born to boogie,
Spendsome time with you, I wanna do all
I wanna do.*
Baby baby I was born a motivation,
Baby baby l was born a motivation,
Spend some time with you, l wanna do all
I wanna do.
Boogie children, uh ah,
Boogie children, uh ah,
Boogie children, uh ah,
Boogie children, uh ah,
*Repeat
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