Eldorado: A Symphony by the Electric Light Orchestra
Electric Light Orchestra
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1
Eldorado Overture
02 : 13
2
Can’t Get It Out of My Head
04 : 21
3
Boy Blue
05 : 19
4
Laredo Tornado
05 : 30
5
Poor Boy (The Greenwood)
02 : 55
6
Mister Kingdom
05 : 30
7
Nobody’s Child
03 : 56
8
Illusions in G Major
02 : 37
9
Eldorado
05 : 18
10
Eldorado Finale
01 : 29
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Track Lyrics
Poor Boy (The Greenwood) Lyrics
[Verse 1]
Me, I'm just a poor boy
From across the far south lands
And I've traveled many days
To reach this place to make my stand
Oh, and I fell in with a merry band
And drank away the hours
[Chorus]
Rollin' on
I've been rollin' on
And my head is high
From the battle won
Laid down my life
For the Greenwood
[Verse 2]
The city boys and the country boys
They come from miles around
To defy their king and country
Save the poor folks from the hands
Of the thieving dukes and abbots
And the gentry of the land
[Chorus]
Rollin' on
I've been rollin' on
And my head is high
From the battle won
Laid down my life
For the Greenwood
[Verse 3]
Sweet Maid Marion
Don't you do me no wrong
Stay on the right side
The Greenwood is your home
Oh, the dancing girls and the open fires
And the wine that flows like water
[Chorus]
Rollin' on
I've been rollin' on
And my head is high
From the battle won
Laid down my life
For the Greenwood
Nobody’s Child Lyrics
[Intro]
(Painted lady, painted lady, painted lady)
(Painted lady, painted lady, painted lady)
(Painted lady, painted lady, painted lady)
(Painted lady, painted lady, painted lady)
Lady, yeah, oh, oh-oh-oh
[Verse 1]
Painted lady, stop that closin' in on me
Painted lady you're supposed to be a dream
Painted lady, you better stay away from me
Yeah, yeah, oh, oh-oh-oh
[Verse 2]
Painted lady, why you loosenin' my tie?
Painted lady, what's that twinkle in your eye?
Painted lady, you better stay away from me
Yeah, yeah, oh, oh-oh-oh
[Verse 3]
Painted lady, with your jewels and your beads
Painted lady, don't you do these dirty deeds
Painted lady, you better stay here with me
Yeah, yeah, yeah, oh, oh
[Instrumental Bridge]
[Verse 4]
Nobody's child
'Til I saw the light of your smile
Painted lady, nobody's child
You have set me free
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah
[Verse 5]
Nobody's child
You came in and stayed for a while
Painted lady, nobody's child
You have set me free
Yeah, yeah, yeah
Oh, whoa, whoa, oh-oh
[Outro]
(Painted lady, painted lady, painted lady)
(Painted lady, painted lady, painted lady)
Painted lady, yeah
(Painted lady, painted lady, painted lady)
Oh-oh-oh-oh-oh, oh
(Painted lady, painted lady, painted lady)
Painted lady, with your smile
(Painted lady, painted lady, painted lady)
(Painted lady, painted lady, painted lady)
Illusions in G Major Lyrics
[Verse 1]
On the seven seas
There was a phantom ship a-coming
Shinin' on the dead of night
I heard the crew a-hummin'
Tunes that sounded like
The Rolling Stones and Leonard Cohen
They didn't know the words
So I assumed that they was foreign
No, no
[Chorus]
But I heard them just the same
Oh doctor, let me teach 'em
I just want to please 'em, now
I said, doctor, let me teach 'em
I just want to please 'em, now
[Verse 2]
I looked up in the sky
There was a phantom plane a comin'
Shinin' in the dead of night
I heard the pilot saying
Poems that were written
By John Keats and Robert Browning
He didn't know the words
So I suppose that it was nothing
No, no, no
[Chorus]
But I heard them just the same
Oh doctor, let me teach 'em
I just want to please 'em, now
I said, doctor, let me teach 'em
I just want to please 'em, now
Hey!
[Verse 3]
Oh doctor, please believe me
I know you won't deceive me
But do these things I'm seeing
Have any hidden meaning?
It's all good entertainment
It doesn't cost a penny
But please doc, let me teach 'em
If I could only reach 'em
My, my, my
[Chorus]
And I heard them just the same
Oh doctor, let me teach 'em
I just want to please 'em, now
Oh doctor, let me teach 'em
I just want to please 'em, now
Eldorado Lyrics
[Verse 1]
Here it comes, another lonely day
Playing the game, I'll sail away
On a voyage of no return to see
If eternal life is meant to be
And if I find the key
To the eternal dream
[Verse 2]
The painted ladies of the Avalon
Play in the sun, take to the road
To the north, there lies the chills of cold
To the south, there lies the tales untold
Oh, but in between, there lies
The place to close your eyes
[Chorus 1]
And I will stay
I'll not be back, Eldorado
I will be free
Of the world, Eldorado
[Verse 3]
"Say goodbye," the city's heroes sing
Bird on the wing, feel, feel so free
Oh, the life upon the rooftop haze
All the cheating and the broken days
So through it all, I see
There's nothing left for me
[Chorus 2]
So I will stay
I'll not be back, Eldorado
I will be free
Of the world, Eldorado
[Verse 4]
Sitting here on top of everywhere
What do I care? Days never end
Though the voyage's end will soon be here
No eternal life is here for me
Oh, and now I found the key
To the eternal dream
[Chorus 3]
Then I will stay
I'll not be back, Eldorado
I will be free
Of the world, Eldorado
Then I will stay
I'll not be back, Eldorado
Eldorado Finale Lyrics
[Outro]
The dreamer, the unwoken fool
High on a hill in Eldorado