Текст песни: All Hallows Eve + перевод

It was long after bedtime one Halloween night

When I awoke with the feeling that all was not right.

Everyone was still sleeping but the dog felt it too

So we creapt down together not sure what to do.

The lights were all out but the house was aglow

With a blue incandescence that swung to and fro.

I peered out the window, I was not afraid

And there in the darkness I saw a parade.

The people were happy, the music was gay

They marched past my house and then melted away.

I stepped through the door, 'twas a dark moonless night

Yet somehow the marchers were bathed in blue light.

I made my way down with a slow measured pace

I was soon close enough to make out each face.

And then I felt joyful and greatly surprised

For some of the faces I recognized.

The first one I knew was a boy from our town

Who was killed in a storm by a tree that fell down.

Next was a neighbor who’d been very I’ll

Though he died long ago I remember him still.

And following him was a line of young girls

All holding hands like a long string of pearls.

Somehow I knew as they flowed by like water

That each one of them was the prior one’s daughter.

And as they went past one after another

There at the end was my mother’s mother.

I could not get to her as hard as I tried

But she turned and she smiled at me as I cried.

Then she was gone in a flicker of light

As the strange music faded into the night.

There was nothing to do but go back to bed

And dream of this magical march of the dead.

For never was there a more joyful sight

Than my grandmother’s smile that Halloween night.

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