All Souls Night

Bonfires dot the rolling hillsides,
Figures dance around and around
To drums that pulse out echoes of darkness
Moving to the pagan sound.

Somewhere in a hidden memory,
Images float before my eyes
Of fragrant nights of straw and of bonfires
And dancing ‘til the next sunrise.

CHORUS 
I can see lights in the distance
Trembling in the dark cloak of night
Candles and lanterns are dancing, dancing
A waltz on All . . . All Souls Night.

Figures of cornstalks bend in the shadows
Held up tall as the flames leap high.
The green knight holds the holly bush
To mark where the old year passes by.

CHORUS 

Bonfires dot the rolling hillsides,
Figures dance around and around
To drums that pulse out echoes of darkness
And moving to the pagan sound.
Standing on the bridge that crosses
The river that goes out to the sea . . . 
The wind is full of a thousand voices
They pass by the bridge and me. 

CHORUS


Appropriate for Samhain