Lyrics:

I left behind my earthly things,

My silver beads and golden rings.

I left behind my father's bower

To walk abroad in an evil hour.



By the verdant braes o' Callander,

Where the broad, majestic Lenny flows,

I saw a gathering of men

Underneath the rowan bowers.



And they summoned you and you were there;

The moon lightened your silver hair.

You rose above the rowan trees,

And this is what you said to me:



'Oh, watch in rapture, watch in joy,

As I transcend before you, boy.

To call you man I'd lie withal,

For yours a lowly kind of soul.



'And the gods command and you obey;

You dance until the break of day.

The gods command and I defy;

I dance away into the sky.'



I left behind my earthly things,

My silver beads and golden rings.

I left behind my father's bower

To walk abroad in an evil hour.I left behind my earthly


things,

My silver beads and golden rings.

I left behind my father's bower

To walk abroad in an evil hour.



By the verdant braes o' Callander,

Where the broad, majestic Lenny flows,

I saw a gathering of men

Underneath the rowan bowers.



And they summoned you and you were there;

The moon lightened your silver hair.

You rose above the rowan trees,

And this is what you said to me:



'Oh, watch in rapture, watch in joy,

As I transcend before you, boy.

To call you man I'd lie withal,

For yours a lowly kind of soul.



'And the gods command and you obey;

You dance until the break of day.

The gods command and I defy;

I dance away into the sky.'



I left behind my earthly things,

My silver beads and golden rings.

I left behind my father's bower

To walk abroad in an evil hour.