Testo Façade: No. 19, Popular Song - Orchestra of the Swan
Testo della canzone Façade: No. 19, Popular Song (Orchestra of the Swan), tratta dall'album Sir William Walton: A Centenary Celebration
Lily O'Grady, silly and shady
Longing to be a lazy lady
Walked by the cupolas' gables
In the Lakes Georgian stables
In a fairy tale
Like the heat intense
And the mist in the woods
When across the fence
The children gathering strawberries
Are changed by the heat into negresses
Though their fair hair shines there
Like gold-haired planets
Calliope, Io, Pomona, Antiope
Echo, and Clio
Then Lily O'Grady, silly and shady
Sauntered along like a lazy lady
Beside the waist-let box her gown
With tucks as of satin the colour
Of shining green ducks
And her folderole parasol
Was a great gold sun
O'er the haycock shining
But she was a negress black as the shade
The time when the brightest lady laid
Then a satyr dog-haired as trunks of trees
Began to flatter, began to tease
And she ran like the nymphs with golden foot
That trampled the strawberry-buttercup root
In the thick gold dew
As bright as the mesh
Of dead Holope's golden flesh
Maiden the music whence were born
Memphis and Thebes on the first hot morn
And ran to wake in the lake
Where the water rippled
Seemed hay to rake
And Charlotteine, Adeline
Around rose-bubbling victorine
And the alga fish expressed a wish
For mastic mantles and gowns with a swish
And bright and slight as the posies
Of buttercups and of rosies
And bunt as the wild wood lilies
They chase her as frisky as fillies
The red retriever-haired satyr
Can whine and tease and flatter
But Lily O'Grady, silly and shady
In the deep shade is a lazy lady
Now Pompey's dead, Homer's red
Heliogabalus lost his head
And shade is on the brightest wing
And dust forbids the bird to sing
Credits
Writer(s): William Walton
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