Down before cathay Lyrics - Incredible String Band

Down before cathay
Through red forests that lean against the hills
I wandered with my heart in my hand
My cloak wound down to the shores of Cathay
Where the gold lay scattered on the sand
Night was young back before the dawn
Casting kisses at the day
Shipping the sea bestriding the earth
Down before Cathay.
The admirable deeds of Khubla Khan
we admired from the deck
Of our cedarwood ship
Observing the domes that prance from Mandalay
Where the dogs they sleep all the day
We gazed upon the Towers of Tyre
That rose coarse and spicey in the air
But we sailed up the coast to sidon
Where the gazes are so rare
Where the gazes are so rar
The ship shone its lamp across the silent ai
That swirled before Catha
And there on the sand that courts the amber sea
Our fair bodies we cast awa
Night was young back before the daw
Casting kisses at the da
Sipping the sea bestriing the eart
Down before Cathay