From the album Smiling Men with Bad Reputations
John Cale: piano, guitar, bass, viola, vocal arrangement
Simon Nicol: guitar
Gecry Conway: drums
Sue Sunny, Liza Strike, John Cale: backing vocals
[Verse 1]
F
When winter came this year she found me well prepared for her
F
The flame well fed with pine, shuttered windows oakwood doors
Bb
From the low dales come the fiddler,
C
gave his tunes their flight
F
When winter came this year, she found me well prepared for her
F C
The flame well fed with pine, shuttered windows oakwood doors
Bb
From the low dales come the fiddler,
C
gave his tunes their flight
[Verse 2]
F
Don't know her name
Bb F C
or the dance that became her so well
F Bb F C
From topmost limb of night's dark tree
F Bb F C
Tonight my lantern light floats free
Dm
The ladies danced so well, the ladies danced so light
F
But it was not mortal step
C
drew me from my guests to meet the night
F G
Snow lies deep with friends unseen
F G C
I will light my eyes to Venus green
G F C
Holding my life with a hope
Bb
When the midnight skies rise,
F
She flies, she flies, She flies, she flies,
[Chorus]
C
Fala she flies, she flies,
C
Fala she flies, she flies,
F
Fala lala la lala la
C
Fala she flies, she flies,
C
Fala she flies, she flies,
F
Fala lala la lala la (repeat to fade)