Your father's gone a-hunting   He's deep in the forest so wild   And he cannot take his wife with him   He cannot take his child   Your father's gone a-hunting   In the quicksand and the clay   And a woman cannot follow him   Although she knows the way     Your father's gone a-hunting   Through the silver and the glass   Where only greed can enter   But spirit, spirit cannot pass     Your father's gone a-hunting   For the beast we'll never cannot bind   And he leaves a baby sleeping   And his blessings all behind     Your father's gone a-hunting   And he's lost his lucky charm   And he's lost the guardian heart   That keeps the hunter from the harm     Your father's gone a-hunting   He asked me to say goodbye   And he warned me not to stop him   I wouldn't, I wouldn't even try