Sabbat - A Cautionary Tale - BBC Radio 1 Friday Rock Show (Official Video)

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This version of A Cautionary Tale appears in the Sabbat: Mad Dogs and Englishmen 5LP/5CD Box Set out now.

Lyrics:

Faustus begin thine incantations;
Take great care to draw thy circle true.
By God you must prevail - For if you fail,
These demons make a meal of you.

Your soul shall be their meat;
A kingly feast for them to eat.
Beware, your future at hand;
Alas for thou art damned.

"Faustus seek repentance;
Abjure this evil art.
Cease this wretched wickedness,
And cleanse thy foolish heart.
For the evil that once served you,
Has made of you a slave;
And transformed your ‘bed of roses',
To a premature grave."

Then in a mighty flash of light,
Before thee Mephistopheles appears.

"I charge thee go and change thy shape,
For you fill my soul with fear.
Now swift-as-hell back to the fire;
Return an old Franciscan friar."

"Mortal command me while you can,
For surely art thou damned."

"Faustus be thou resolute,
In what thou wilt perform.
Ignore these righteous idiots,
Their Trinity to scorn.
For years of deprivation you receive eternal life;
But fame and wealth and maidens-fair,
Are by far the better price."

"Temptations all around me;
Is there nowhere I can turn?
Hellfire is all about me;
Now I know that I shall burn.
I face excommunication,
For the error of my ways;
To burn in Hell for all my days.

Bell, book and candle,
Candle, book, bell;
Forwards and backwards,
To damn me to Hell.

Jehovah I beg thee to have mercy on my soul
Jehovah I beg thee to have mercy on my soul
Jehovah I beg thee to have mercy on my soul
Have mercy on me

Begone foul beast that stands before me;
My God! The midnight hour chimes.
Oh Lord have mercy - He comes for me;
I haven't got much time.
I am awake - This is no dream,
I cry - But terror takes my scream.
And now my future is at hand;
Alas for thou art damned.
Alas for thou art damned.

"Think for just one moment,
And I'm sure that you will see;
The moral to this story,
That what must be shall be.
He who gives his soul to Hell,
Must dare to pay the price.
He versed in divinity,
Must live a noble life...
OR ELSE HE IS DAMNED!