 Syd Barret wrote the musical arrangements of this lyrics when he was 15. The lyrics are originally from a poem in "Chamber Music" by James Joyce (1907). Initially the song was thought as a part of the album "The piper at the gates of down" by Pink Floyd, but it wasn't so because it was too different from the rest of the songs. So it appeared only later in the Syd Barret album "A madcap laughs"
You can listen the song here Lean out your window, golden hair I heard you singing in the midnight air my book is closed, I read no more watching the fire dance, on the floor I've left my book, I've left my room For I heard you singing through the gloom singing and singing, a merry air lean out the window, golden hair... Comments are closed.
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