] [Written by: Domingo Samudio[1]-1965] [Performed by: Sam the Sham & the Pharaohs[2]-1965] [Appears on

the Sham & the Pharaohs-1966] [Appears on: Li'l Red Riding Hood-1966, Cruisin' (1966)-1976*, Rock & Roll

This pain in my head, this anger in my heart It is for you, my friend The tears ever flow a river of disdain So unfailingly flowing to the end Oh -

Dawn closes in without mercy and my boy is here I'll be the one to damn us both if pride is a sin Flying on wings of faith, dying on wings of

The threat, so dark on the horizon Seemed far too strong to fight. The only hope, we thought, was running Under cover of the night But we disdained

To sail the waves of the ocean Across the sea of life Chasing the wind of freedom And reaching into the light Dreaming all I can dream Feeding my

They are lost to the mythic haze, Those retreating and distant days When the eye could observe your ways And our memories were made, But those

Inside me barely beats A heart that's poisoned through Filled with this death disease No chances left to lose What doesn't kill you makes you

Under the mountain Inside the eye The ashes of dreaming The reason to lie Heretic! Traitor! Inside the armor Trapped under ice A stranger among

And then the war was done, All the dead were one, I found my eyes and They were useless in the sun. And with a blade I found, I cut a mountain