Lyrics: Robert Hunter
Music: Robert Hunter
A Hunter song written for his 2004 tour.
Mentioned in his journal for 27 May 2004:
Eulalie is my favorite of the new batch - just sang it for Maureen for the first time, and she like to burst into tears - said that after hearing it she suddenly stopped dreading the tour and is now looking forward to it!These are lyrics from 29 June 2004:
Rockabye lady in the skyHere's another version from 2 July 2004 with a few differences noted: (thanks to an unnamed corespondent for sending me this)
Come and hear my lullaby
Far from care and far from pain
Fields of roses wet with rain
Memory itself recedes
I can't remember what I believe
But I believe whatever it was
Shed more light than anything else does
Rockabye lady in the solitary moonlight
Might have been a June night, judging from the starlight
Elementary magic of the solitary moonbeam
Might have been a dream but that isn't how it seemed
Down came the fellow with the rose umbrella
Drifting down from the moon so pale and yellow
Rising up to meet him in the middle of the air
Eulalie came a grinning with the lily in her black hair
Eulalie comes, Eulalie goes
Sweet as sunshine on the rose
Once alive, you never die
Just open to some other sky
Rockabye lady in the wind
Some day we'll meet again
A thousand years, a thousand miles
A thousand postcards I don't write
A thousand hopes, a thousand songs
A thousand reasons to be gone
Only one to come back home
Eulalie in the moonlight all alone
Rockabye lady in the solitary moonlight
Gleaming through the evergeen, [??]
Down came the fellow with the rose umbrella
Drifting down from the moon so pale and yellow
The two entwined, as lovers will
Underneath the comet up on Dead Man Hill
Sky rode highway, laced in diamonds
The skies are bright and blue and [diamonds]
Sky rode highway, laced in blood
We were here before the flood
Flood recedes, will come again
Maybe you will love me then
Memory itself recedes
Can't remember what I believe
But I believe whatever it was
Shed more light than anything else does
Rockabye lady in the solitary moonlight
Must have been a June night, guaging from the starlight
Elementary magic of a momentary moonbeam
Might have been a dream but that wasn't how it seemed
Rockabye lady in the sky"Eulalie - A Song" is the title of a poem by Edger Allen Poe. Hunter may well have known the poem but there doesn't seem to be any relation to his song.
Come and hear my lullaby
Far from care, far from pain
Fields of roses wet with rain
Memory itself recedes
I can't remember what I believe
But I believe what ever it was
Shed more light than anything else does
Rockabye lady in the solitary moonlight
Must have been a June night gauging from the starlight
Momentary magic of the elementary moonbeam
It might have been a dream but that isn't how it seems
Down came the fella with the rose umbrella
Drifting down from the moon so pale and yellow
Rising up to meet him in the middle of the air
Eulalie came a grinning with a lily in her black hair
The two entwined as lover's will
Underneath a comet on Dead Man Hill
Sky rode highway cloud's unfurled
Standing on a cliff overlooking the world
Rockabye lady in the wind
One day we'll meet again
A thousand years, a thousand miles
A thousand postcards I don't write
A thousand hopes, a thousand songs
A thousand reasons to be gone
And only one to go back home
Eulalie in the moonlight all alone
Rockabye lady in the shadow of a slipstream
Momentary moonbeam gleaming through the evergreen
Venus, setting now see you in the morning
Thunder from a clear sky lightning without warning
Down came the fella with the rose umbrella
To the hymn of a horn and a violent yellow
Fine, oh very very fine sweet music in the air
Sound of children's laughter
Sky rode highway paved with blood
We were here before the flood
Flood recedes we'll come again
Maybe you will love me then
Memeory itself recedes
I can't remember what I believe
But I believe whatever it was
Shed more light than anything else does
Rockabye lady in the solitary moonlight
Must have been a June night judging by the starlight
Elementary magic of an elementary moonbeam
Might have been a dream but that isn't how it seems
Little Eulalie was wounded in love
And swore to avenge this great wrong
She murdered her brother, blamed her lover
Come all ye and tend to my song
Eulalie went walking, a satisfied smile
On her fair and innocent face
She sang all the while, pictured the trial
And laughed at the pitiful case
All of a sudden a very high wind
A hot wind heavy as lead
Rose from the South, blew off her bonnet
Not only her bonnet but also her head
Sing high wind, come back with Eulalie
Sing hot wind, come back with her head
Sing high wind, Eulalie's blue bonnet
Blow 'em both back from the land of the dead
For a year and a day over mountain and plain
Over desert and valley and vale
Eulalie went searching but always in vain
Through the fog and the heat and the hail
She wandered through hurricane, snowfall and rain
In the gloom, in the damp, in the mist
Until she came to the Crack in the World
This headless and bonnetless miss
Having no eyes to discover its size
She slipped on the edge and fell in
She found all the things ever blown away
That were never discovered again
She found not her bonnet, sadly but true
Though she found a new bonnet of red
She felt around the things on the ground
And among them discovered a head
She laughed when she found she could cry
Cried when she found she could speak
But the voice she heard upon sounding a word
To her fright she found rather too deep
Poor Eulalie, she ripped and she tugged
But the head was stuck tight in its place
A bloody head that was cut from a man
For murder most heinous and base
Eulalie, Eulalie, looked in a mirror
And discovered it was no other
Blown away where the lost things lay
But the head of her untrue lover