Winter was cold and the clothing was thin   But the gentle shepherd calls the tune   Oh dear mother what shall I do   First please your eyes and then your ears Jenny   Exchanging love tokens say goodnight      Lay down my dear sister   Won't you lay and take your rest   Won't you lay your head upon your saviours breast   And I love you but Jesus loves you the best   And I bid you goodnight, goodnight, goodnight,   And I bid you goodnight, goodnight, goodnight.   One of these mornings bright and early and fine.   Goodnight, goodnight   Not a cricket not a spirit going to shout me on   Goodnight, goodnight   I go walking in the valley of the shadow of death   Goodnight, goodnight   And his rod and his staff shall comfort me   Goodnight, goodnight   Oh John the wine he saw the sign   Goodnight, goodnight   Oh John say I seen a number of signs   Goodnight, goodnight   Tell A for the ark that wonderful boat   Goodnight, goodnight   You know they built it on the land getting water to float   Goodnight, goodnight   Tell B for the beast at the ending of the wood   Goodnight, goodnight   You know it ate all the children when they wouldn't be good   Goodnight, goodnight   I remember quite well, I remember quite well   Goodnight, goodnight   I was walking in Jerusalem just like John   Goodnight, goodnight, goodnight.      Who would lose and who would bruise   Or who would live quite prettily?   And who would love what comes along   And fill the air with joyous song      Who would go and who would come   Or who would simply linger   And who would hide behind your chair   And steal your crystallised ginger      Nebulous nearness cry to me   At this timeless moment   Someone dear to me wants me near, makes me high   I can hear vibrations fly   Through mangoes, pomegranates and planes   All the same   When it reaches me and teaches me   To sigh      Who would mouse and who would lion   Or who would be the tamer   And who would hear directions clear   From the unameable namer      Who would skip and who would plod   Or who would like quite silly   And who would ride backwards on a giraffe   Stopping every so often to laugh      Amoebas are very small      Oh ah ee oo there's absolutely no strife   living the timeless life   I don't need a wife   living the timeless life   If I need a friend I just give a wriggle   Split right down the middle   And when I look there's two of me   Both as handsome as can be   Oh here we go slithering, here we go slithering and squelching on   Oh here we go slithering, here we go slithering and squelching on   Oh ah ee oo there's absolutely no strife   living the timeless life      Black hair brown hair feather and scale   Seed and stamen and all unnamed lives that live   Turn your quivering nerves in my direction   Turn your quivering nerves in my direction   Feel the energy projection of my cells   Wishes you well.      May the long time sun shine upon you   All love surround you   And the pure light within you   Guide you all the way on.