Robbie Basho - California Raga (1971)

The second track on the B-side of Song of the Stallion, Basho's seventh album.

Narrative:

There is a legend in the land of California of a Queen who rides by night and taunts the watchers of the heart to follow; and this I've heard and of the few who've seen her, fewer yet have followed.

They say she comes at midnight
And picks her lovers carefully,
So very carefully, without a sound;
This lady of the night,
La Senora Del Noche -- Dios,
She rides a white-spotted stallion
And wears a suit of red Spanish wine
And fills a blouse of white Spanish lace
A black cordovan hat with dancing fringes adorns her face,
Her face smooth as almonds
Her raven locks, curling at the temples
And her eyelids, how they quiver with dignity
And her eyes Oh! Her eyes, like sabers, sabers cutting the night away
And always she rides, looking back over her shoulders
Her shoulders, so haughty, so high born
As if to say, Catch me if you can, Oh man, oh man,
And if you follow, the sky will swallow
And I will leave you my love,
In the willows by the Mountain
The big Blue Mountain with the White-silver cone
And you will wait
And you will wait
Till it will open

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