Yonder Come the Blues

[Verse 1]

Moonlit girls hiding in the dunes

Stars are falling like rockets in ruins

I'm in the meadows where the roses bloom

The orange blossoms shaking loose

The lovers talking like lovers do

The summer's twilights had 'em fooled

[Chorus]

Yonder come

Yonder come

Yonder come the blues

Now clap your hands, baby, stomp your boots

Yonder come the blues

[Verse 2]

My feet are planted in the waist-high reeds

In the shadows, in the shade of trees

In the kingdom's smoky leaves

You'd be laughing too if you could see

On the outskirts long and lean

Not bearing gifts on a jet black steed

[Chorus]

Yonder come

Yonder come

Yonder come the blues

Ain't no rumor, it's simply true

Yonder come the blues

[Verse 3]

A dozen fingers and an easy touch

Throwing ashes in the pixie dust

I'm locked and loaded now off the bus

It's got us numbered, the two of us

Now sing that gospel and get your thrills

Raise the roof off and strike the bell

You'd be dancing too if you could tell

It's waking up and coming out of its shell

[Verse 4]

Down the boulevard sirens pass

Into the underworld deep and black

With brass and ladders, pick and axe

On down the stairwell through the blast

Now single file out, don't be last

Not every one of us is coming back

[Chorus]

Yonder come

Yonder come

Yonder come the blues

Now move on back and let them through

Yonder come the blues