Sweet Dancer

The girl goes dancing there

On the leaf-sown, new-mown, smooth

Grass plot of the garden

Escaped from her bitter youth

Escaped out of her crowd

Or out of her black cloud.

Ah, dancer, ah, sweet dancer

Ah, dancer, ah, sweet dancer.

If strange men come from the house

To lead her away, please, do not say

She's crazy

Lead them gently astray

Let her finish her dance

Finish her dance.

Ah, dancer, ah, sweet dancer

Ah, dancer, ah, sweet dancer.

She sings as the moon sings

I am I, I am I

The greater grows my light

The further shall I fly

I hear the wind a-blow

I hear the grass a-grow

And all that I know

I know, I know.

The girl goes dancing there

On the leaf-sown, new-mown, smooth grass of the garden

Let her finish the dance

Let her finish the dance

Finish the dance.

Ah, dancer, ah, sweet dancer

Ah, dancer, ah, sweet dancer.

Ah, dancer, ah, sweet dancer

Ah, dancer, ah, sweet dancer.