Angelo Branduardi The Enchanted Lake Lyrics

The Enchanted Lake Lyrics

ANGELO BRANDUARDI
"fables and fantasies"

The Enchanted
Lake

Close by Jacob's fountain 
Starts the strange tale I will
tell
Where fair Madelaine met an enchanter
Who addressed her in a tongue
few men know well
Said he all you wish
From this hour is yours for
asking
Tell me all your desire
For there's no dream I can't fulfill
it

Sir be on your way I've no time for your games
Not for you do I
wait here but for another
He will come for me and bring me a velvet
gown
And we'll go hand in hand to London town

You're a fool if you
think you won't be mine
Said the enchanter to fair Madelaine
And yet you
are young so I forgive you
If you'd lived my thousand years you'd
play

Once more did he ask 
For a wish from her heart
Better
believe now or spells
I will use to make you mine
You'd make a fine tree
that blossomed every springtime
Shade me in the summer and be my firewood in
winter

This has gone to far
Cried out the young maid
Now I see you
for a liar
Full of your own wind
All this talk of spells
What nonsense
a thousand years
When I see your face to be younger yet than mine

So
the enchanter spun him circles three
And turned her with a spell to a calm
white lake
From the top of a tower of ivory
Forever he gazes on her
face

So the enchanter spun him circles three
And turned her with a
spell to a calm white lake
From the top of a tower of ivory
Forever he
loves fair Madelaine's face...