Penny - Vagabond Opera

I’m at your window

A penny on the pavement Saturday night

The moon is a red lantern

Dripping a silver wax path to your door

The soldiers woke him up that night

Strings of banjo, sugar cane

Played so sweetly, fireflies

The stars sang Seibert’s old refrain

But now, la vie, don’t sail away

Your minstrel breeze grow long to me

I will find your port again

I will wait like Rosencrantz

for Godot

I’m at your window

My face swimming in a glass like light

and you pay me a haiku

of cherry blossom shimmering light

She had no time for any life

and left on bleak and summer’s day

Oh dog strikes eagles fireflies

Rice paper clouds and grey mache

But now, la vie, don’t sail away

I stake my case, let this song burn

I will find your port again

I will wait like Guildenstern

I’m at your window

A penny on the pavement Saturday night

The moon is a red lantern

Dripping a silver wax path to your door

Please don’t sail away

Don’t sail away

Don’t sail away

Don’t sail away

Don’t sail away