Round Shouldered Man

Lyrics

[COLIN, spoken] Mary, please don't go! The storm scares me so that if I went to sleep I know I'd have such terrible dreams.  [MARY, spoken] I have terrible dreams too.  [COLIN, spoken] They're not all terrible. It's just that when I go to sleep I never know whether my dream is going to be terrible or wonderful or... [COLIN] Some nights I dream That a round-shouldered man Comes in my room On a beam of moonlight He never says what he wants He just sits with a book in his hands And then I dream That the round-shouldered man Takes me off on a ride Through the moors by moonlight He never says where we'll go We just ride 'cross the hills till dawn And some night I'm going to ask him Is the night sky black or blue? I know the answer's in his book Of all that's good and true And then I dream That the round-shouldered man Took my hand and we walked To a secret garden I never knew where we were We just sat in the crook of a broken tree And some night I'm going to ask him How the old moon turns to new I know the answer's in his book Of all that's good and true I'm sure the answer's in his book Of all that's good and true [MARY, spoken] Colin, I've just realised. If our mothers were sisters, well that makes us... cousins!