Bonfires dot the rolling hills

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 till the next sunrise.




I can see lights in the distance


Trembling in the dark cloak of night


Candles and lanterns are dancing, dancing

A waltz on 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.




I can see the lights in the distance


Trembling in the dark cloak of night

Candles and lanterns are dancing, dancing


A waltz on All Souls Night.




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.




I can see the lights in the distance


Trembling in the dark cloak of night

Candles and lanterns are dancing, dancing


A waltz on All Souls Night.




I can see the lights in the distance

Trembling in the dark cloak of night

Candles and lanterns are dancing, dancing


A waltz on All Souls Night.