Robert Plant Fairport Convention Kristina Donahue

perform The Battle Of Evermore at Cropredy 2008

Robert Plant and Kristina Donahue join Fairport Convention to perform Led Zeppelin's "The Battle Of Evermore" at Cropredy 2008. The original lead vocals on Led Zeppelin Untitled was the late and still sorely missed Sandy Denny

The Battle of Evermore

Queen of Light took her bow,
And then she turned to go.
The Prince of Peace embraced the gloom,
And walked the night alone.

Dance in the dark of night,
Sing to the morning light.
The dark Lord rides in force tonight,
And time will tell us all.

Throw down your plow and hoe,
Rest not to lock your homes.
Side by side we wait the might,
Of the darkest of them all.

I hear the horses' thunder down in the valley below.
I'm waiting for the angels of Avalon,
Waiting for the eastern glow.

The apples of the valley hold,
The seeds of happiness.
The ground is rich from tender care,
Repay do not forget.

Dance in the dark of night,
Ssing to the morning light.
The apples turn to brown and black,
The tyrant's face is red.

Oh the war is common cry,
Pick up you swords and fly.
The sky is filled with good and bad,
That mortals never know.

Oh well the night is long the beads of time pass slow.
Tired eyes on the sunrise,
Waiting for the eastern glow.

The pain of war cannot exceed,
The woe of aftermath.
The drums will shake the castle wall,
The ring wraiths ride in black.

Sing as you raise your bow,
Shoot straighter than before.
No comfort has the fire at night,
That lights the face so cold.

Dance in the dark of night,
Sing to the morning light.
The magic runes are writ in gold,
To bring the balance back.

At last the sun is shining,
The clouds of blue roll by.
With flames from the dragon of darkness,
The sunlight blinds his eyes.

[Robert Plant/Jimmy Page]

Led Zeppelin- Untitled. 1971[click for larger]

Atlantic Records 19129 1971

related internet links

Kristina Donahue

Daughter of legendary guitarist

Jerry Donahue and granddaughter

of the late 1940s/50s Big Band

leader Sam Donahue, this is

her myspace space

Fairport Convention

the official website of this

longlasting (41 years and counting)

band. all you need to know is here

Led Zeppelin-Untitled

complete information ,including

the lyrics, for this album

Robert Plant

his official website

all you need to know about

the doings of RP

Robert Plant, Fairport Convention - Cropredy 1986

Robert Plant makes the first of his guest

appearances at Fairport Convention's

Cropredy festival. This time it's from the

7th Annual Reunion, in 1986.

Fairport back Percy on a song from

Muddy Waters, 'Nineteen Years Old'.