Le groupe Gryphon a été actif de 1972 à 1977, fondé par Brian Gulland & Richard Harvey (avec le guitariste Graeme Taylor et le batteur Dave Oberlé). Ils fusionnent musique de la Renaissance et rock progressif. J'aime bien leur reprise des Beatles, Mother Nature's Son. Ils se sont reformés depuis 2008.
Dans leur premier album de 1973, ils avaient repris cette vieille chanson The Unquiet Grave, sur le thème élégiaque, où la défunte se plaint d'être perturbée par le deuil de son amant. Il en existe bien des versions, dont certaines où les genres sont inversés.
Cold blows the wind to my true love and gently drops the rain
I only had but one true love and in greenwood she lies slain
I'll do as much for my true love as any young man may
I'll sit and mourn along her grave for a twelve-month and a day
When the twelve months and one day was past the ghost began to speak:
"Why sit thou'st here along my grave and will not let me sleep?"
"There's one thing that I want sweetheart, there's one thing that I crave
And that is a kiss from your lily white lips then I'll go from your grave"
"My lips they are as cold as clay my breath smells earthy strong
And if you kiss my cold clay lips your days they won't be long
Go fetch me water from the desert and blood from out of stone
Go fetch me milk from a fair maid's breast that a young man never had known"
'Twas down in Cupid's Garden where you and I would walk
The finest flower that ever I saw is withered to a stalk
The stalk is withered and dry sweetheart the flower will ne'er return
And since I lost my one true love what can I do but mourn?
"When shall we meet again sweetheart? When shall we meet again?"
"Ere the oaken leaves that fall from the trees are green and spring up again"
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