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This page contains all the misheard lyrics for Battle of Evermore that have been submitted to this site and the old collection from inthe80s started in 1996.
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A year, or is it thunder, down in the valley below
I hear the horses thunder down in the valley below
Prince of Beef, embrace the glue...
Prince of Peace, embrace the gloom...
Dance in the dark of night
Run like a fly.
Dance in the dark of night
Sing to the morning light.
Dancing in dark light
Sing to the moonlight.
Dancing in dark of night
Sing to the morning light.
Doesn't the dark night
Sing to the morning light?
Dance in the dark night
Sing to the morning light
I hear the walrus is sun-burned
Down in the valley below!
I hear the horses' thunder
Down in the valley below.
I hear the whores of Sunday moan in the valley below
I hear the horses thunder down in the valley below
The submitter of this lyric adds: I just had to correct my own 13 year old son, who apparently misheard Robert Plant's lyrics, word for word, exactly as I did at his age.
I'm waiting for the angel of Babylon
I'm waitin' for the angels of Avalon
Queen of Light took her bow
And then she turned to gold.
Queen of Light took her bow
And then she turned to go.
Rest not 'til I go home.
Rest not to lock your homes.
Sing a Eurasia poem. Sure stranger than before.
Sing as you raise your bow. Shoot straighter than before.
The Ringwraiths are out in black
To bring the balance back
Throw down your plow and hold
Rest not 'til the morrow.
Throw down your plow and hoe
Rest not to lock your homes.
To bring the ballads back.
To bring the balance back.