But out of all that I recall, I remembered the girl I met
There we laid cool in the shade singing songs and making love
"We'll find a dry place under the sky with a flower for a bed
"I'll tell you everything I've learned and love is all", he said
There was plenty merriment, cider and wine abound
The wedding took place and people came from many miles around
Gardener's daughter stopped me on my way on the day I was to wed
"It is you who I wish to share my body with," she said
Songwriter: Yusuf Islam
Publisher: SALAFA LIMITED
Until the gift that someone left, a basket by my door
And in there lay the fairest little baby crying to be fed
And people would ride from far and wide just to seek the word he spread
Oh, as it was a year before
'Cause she had given me something that my heart could not forget
Her hands were like the white sands and her eyes had diamonds on
With the naked earth beneath us and the universe above
I got down on my knees and kissed the moon and star, oh, on his head
Her silver hair flowed in the air, laying waves across the sun
And we walked till we came to where the holy magnolia stood
As years went by the boy grew high and the village looked on in awe
We left the road and headed up to the top of the Whisper Wood
And for my joy I will give you a boy with a moon and star on his head"
So while she was asleep I kissed her cheek for cheerio
A year had passed and everything was just as it was a year before
The time was late, my wedding wouldn't wait, I was sad but I had to go
They'd never seen anything like the boy with the moon and star before