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Nevermore, Lenore (Live Loop)

from Samhain​/​Halloween Compilation by Celia Farran

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“NeverMore”
Words by Edgar Allen Poe
Arranged by Celia Farran
(C) 2023 Red Granite Goddess Publishing / ASCAP

Once upon a midnight dreary, while I pondered, weak and weary,….
Over many a quaint and curious volume of forgotten lore—…
    While I nodded, nearly napping, suddenly there came a tapping,
As of some one gently rapping, rapping at my chamber door….
“’Tis some visitor,” and nothing more.”

Deep into that darkness peering, long I stood there wondering, fearing,…
Doubting, dreaming dreams no mortal ever dared to dream before;
    But the silence was unbroken, and the stillness gave no token,…
    And the only word there spoken was the whispered word, …“Lenore?”
            Merely this and nothing more.

Nothing More. Nothing More. Nothing More. Just Lenore
Nothing More. Nothing More. Nothing More. Just Lenore

 Open here I flung the shutter, when, with many a flirt and flutter,
In there stepped a stately Raven of the saintly days of yore;
    Not the least obeisance made he; not a minute stopped or stayed he;…
    But, with mien of lord or lady, perched above my chamber door—…
            Perched, and sat, and nothing more

But the Raven, sitting lonely on the placid bust, spoke only…
That one word, as if his soul in that one word he did outpour…
    Nothing farther then he uttered—not a feather then he fluttered—…
    Till I scarcely more than muttered “Other friends have flown before—…
On the morrow he will leave me, as my Hopes have flown before.”
            Then the bird said “Nevermore.”

“Prophet!” said I, “thing of evil!—prophet still, if bird or devil!
By that Heaven that bends above us—(*by the Gods) we both adore—
    Tell this soul with sorrow laden if, within the distant Aidenn,…
    It shall clasp a sainted maiden whom the angels name Lenore—..

           Quoth the Raven “Nevermore.”


Nevermore. Nevermore. Nevermore, Lenore.
Nevermore. Nevermore. Nevermore, Lenore X2

And the Raven, never flitting, still is sitting, still is sitting
On the pallid bust of Pallas just above my chamber door;
    And his eyes have all the seeming of a demon’s that is dreaming,
    And the lamp-light o’er him streaming throws his shadow on the floor;…..
And my soul from out that shadow            
Shall be lifted—Never Nevermore!

Ooooohhhhhhh….
Nevermore. Nevermore. Nevermore, Lenore.
Nevermore. Nevermore. Nevermore, Lenore.
Oooohhh. Lenore.

Loop Under Chorus:
Nevermore nevermore never never never more.
Nevermore nevermore never never never more.
Nevermore nevermore never never never more.
Never more. X2

*The only lyric I adjusted from Poe’s original
Originally: “by the God we both adore.”

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from Samhain​/​Halloween Compilation, released October 6, 2023
Lyrics by Edgar Allen Poe
Arranged & Performed by Celia Farran

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Celia Farran Langley, Washington

Celia is a cross between an Earthy Enya, Joan Baez, &.... Tina Fey. Celia artfully reaches deep into the soul of the listener with her angelic voice and musical creations. "What Celia Offers is a Gift to the World", Brooke Medicine Eagle, Author of "The Last Ghost Dance. "Celia's Music Calls Women to their Glory & Men to Their Hearts". Marianne Williamson, Author of "Return to Love" ... more

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