Harvest Of The Moon - Steeleye Span

All the husbands and the wives

We were dancing for our lives

All to the tune of Elsie Marley

Instead of gathering up our differences

And throwing them in the air

And giving them to the wind that shakes the barley

And the children they were watching

Every girl and every girl

As we danced to the tune of Elsie Marley

But they’d heard another tune

From the harvest of the moon

That rides upon the wind that shakes the barley

Then Bridget she declared

That she was not prepared

To watch us dance to the tune of Elsie Marley

She said I’ll sing you all a song

And you’ll want to sing along

If you listen to the wind that shakes the barley

And the song that she sang

Could be heard for miles around

The air was full of harmony

You should have heard the sound

As we gathered up our differences

And threw them in the air

And gave them to the wind that shakes the barley

All the husbands and the wives

We were dancing for our lives

All to the tune of Elsie Marley

Until we gathered up our differences

And threw them in the air

And gave them to the wind that shakes the barley

Then all of us declared

That we were not prepared

To dance our lives away with Elsie Marley

For we’d heard another tune

From the harvest of the moon

That rides upon the wind that shakes the barley

And the song that we sang

Could be heard for miles around

The air was full of harmony

You should have heard the sound

As we gathered up our differences

And threw them in the air

And gave them to the wind that shakes the barley