Friday, 24 October 2014

Song of the Week #5 - Genesis - Dancing with the Moonlit Knight





Thanks to Luigi for stepping in for Valerio and choosing this week's track, Dancing With The Moonlit Knight from the album, Selling England By The Pound by Genesis. The album was released in 1973 when Peter Gabriel was still in the band. Think about how the song could help you with your English - look at the vocabulary (especially fixed expressions, metaphors, idioms and collocations - note the homophone in the title), the pronunciation (rhythm and rhyme), the meaning, importance, background to the song or what the song means to you personally.



"Can you tell me where my country lies?"

Said the unifaun to his true love's eyes

"It lies with me", cried the Queen of Maybe

For her merchandise, he traded in his prize


"Paper late", cried a voice in the crowd

"Old man dies" the note he left was signed 'Old Father Thames'

It seems he's drowned

Selling England by the pound


Citizens of Hope and Glory

Time goes by it's "the time of your life"

Easy now, sit you down

Chewing through your Wimpy dreams

They eat without a sound

Digesting England by the pound


Young man says, "You are what you eat", eat well

Old man says, "You are what you wear", wear well

You know what you are, you don't give a damn

Bursting your belt that is your homemade sham


The Captain leads his dance right on through the night

Join the dance

Follow on! Till the Grail sun sets in the mold.

Follow on! Till the gold is cold

Dancing out with the moonlit knight

Knights of the Green Shield stamp and shout


There's a fat old lady outside the saloon

Laying out the credit cards she plays Fortune

The deck is uneven right from the start

And all of their hands are playing apart


The Captain leads his dance right on through the night

Join the dance

Follow on! Till the Grail sun sets in the mold

You're the show

Off we go with, you play the hobbyhorse

I'll play the fool, we'll tease the bull

Ringing round and loud, loud and round


Follow on! Till the Grail sun sets in the mold

Follow on! Till the gold is cold

Dancing out with the moonlit knight

Knights of the Green Shield stamp and shout



Songwriters

Banks, Anthony / Collins, Phil / Gabriel, Peter / Hackett, Steven



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Lyrics © EMI Music Publishing







Read more: Genesis - Dancing With The Moonlit Knight Lyrics | MetroLyrics






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