Listen, Learn, Read On

[Verse 1]

In ages past when spells were cast

In a time of men in steel

When a man was taught no special thing

It was all done by feel

[Chorus]

So listen, so learn, so read on

You got to turn the page

Read the Book of Taliesyn

[Verse 2]

Hear the song of lovely Joan

Her sound so sweet and clear

In the courtroom of the King

Among children and the peers

[Chorus]

So listen, so learn, so read on

You got to turn the page

Read the Book of Taliesyn

[Bridge]

"Now hear ye the words of Taliesyn

On the foaming beach of the ocean

In the day of trouble

I shall be of more service to thee

Than three hundred salmon

[Verse 3]

The hare he bounds across the page

Past castles white and fair

Past dreaming chessmen on their boards

With a fool's mate as a snare

[Chorus]

So listen, so learn, so read on

You got to turn the page

Read the Book of Taliesyn

[Guitar Solo]

[Chorus]

So listen, so learn, so read on

You got to turn the page

Read the Book of Taliesyn

[Bridge]

Three times I have been born

I know this from meditation

[Verse 4]

The bird he flies the distance

From pages two to six

Past minstrels in their boxes

To the waters of the Styx

[Chorus]

So listen, so learn, so read on

You got to turn the page

Read the Book of Taliesyn

[Verse 5]

Don't take the pictures lightly

Listen to their sound

For from their coloured feeling

Experience is found

[Chorus]

So listen, so learn, so read on

You got to turn the page

Read the Book of Taliesyn

[Outro]

All the sciences of the world

Are collected in my breast

For I know what has been, what is now

And what hereafter will occur