Poems, Prayers, and Promises from a Country Parson: Kate's Song

Saturday, December 16, 2006

This is a song based on Kate Trask from Steinbeck's East of Eden.

Long ago and far away

I took a trip to a distant land

And paused to see in that far town

The fairest beauty to be found

With eyes of deepest blue

And hair so long and gold.

Every night in her home

I would sit and at her beauty stare

And as the time passed quickly by

I would forget all lives woes and cares.

So comrades stop and listen now

To the danger I will tell

For if you heed my words of fear

You can save your soul from hell.

For when you look into her eyes.

The depth of your soul she will spy.

And all the secrets of your heart

From your mouth will soon depart.

While I sat there in her spell

I told things I vowed to never tell.

And now I am a slave of hell

For the secret of my past is known.

And the time to flee her has come and gone.

So now her I stay

And watch my soul fade away.

For I can’t leave her beauty’s grip and

Make my desperate rescue trip.

So comrades stop and listen now

To the danger I will tell

For if you heed my words of fear

You can save your soul from hell.

But now I set here in her sway

As my soul slowly fades away.

Yet young men please hear my cry.

And dare not ever look into her eyes.