John was not an evil man    Though far from perfect true    And he spent his days a rovin’ though    He’d a wife and daughter too    He staggered home one drunken night    And paused beneath an oak    To warm himself and rest a while    He’d move on when he woke    And though he’d built a fire to ward    Off the evenin’ chill    The embers slowly died from sight    The woods grew cold and still       John awoke to a huntsman’s horn    Joooohn!    And the bayin’ of some hound    Arooooooooooo!    I’ve stumbled in just before the morn’    To some noble’s hunting ground    He saw the hound all pallid white    With ears a bloody red    And then he saw the Huntsman    And John was filled with dread       Run for your life John    The Wild Hunts comin’    Comin’ after thee    Run for your life John    The hounds are callin’    Callin’ out to thee    Take to the hills    Take to the woods    Hie through the brambles and see    If you can’t outrun them    Until the morning    See if you can’t get free       Well over hill through forest too    Through stream and thorny briar    The Huntsman and his hounds kept chasing    Never would they tire    And John he knew if he could last    Until the mornin’ light    Why he would have outrun them    And made it through the night    But it was yet some hours until    He’d see the mornin’ sun    And then he heard the hounds again    This chase had just begun       Run for your life John    The Wild Hunts comin’    Comin’ after thee    Run for your life John    The hounds are callin’    Callin’ out to thee    Take to the hills    Take to the woods    Hie through the brambles and see    If you can’t outrun them    Until the morning    See if you can’t get free       John made it back unto his home    And saw an awful sight    For it was all abandoned    O’ergrown in just one night    “Full twenty years have come and gone    since all me drunken days.    If I knew then what I know now    I’d ’ve changed my rovin’ ways”    The Huntsman gave a soulless laugh    Mwa-ha-ha-haaa    John cried, “By all good men    I’ll never let ya have me!”    Run John!    And the chase began again       Run for your life John    The Wild Hunts comin’    Comin’ after thee    Run for your life John    The hounds are callin’    Callin’ out to thee    Take to the hills    Take to the woods    Hie through the brambles and see    If you can’t outrun them    Until the morning    See if you can’t get free       And if you’re there some moonlit night    When the woods grow cold and still    Why you’ll see John the rover    They say    He runs there    Still       (slowly, hauntingly)    Run for your life John    The Wild Hunts comin’    Comin’ after thee    Run for your life John    The hounds are callin’    Callin’ out to thee    Take to the hills    Take to the woods    Hie through the brambles and see    If you can’t outrun them    Until the morning    See if you can’t get free       (at speed)    Run for your life John    The Wild Hunts comin’    Comin’ after thee    Run for your life John    The hounds are callin’    Callin’ out to thee    Take to the hills    Take to the woods    Hie through the brambles and see    If you can’t outrun them    Until the morning    See if you can’t get free       Run for your life John    The Wild Hunt’s comin’!    Joooohn!