An Oath Sworn On The Ashlar Stone lyrics

An eerie night bathed by moonlight on the Keighley Moors A strange troop of men climb the hill again: Folk lock their doors Lamps on the hillside – burning flames under crooked trees And the old rock flaunts its silence in the winter's breeze Come in child; don't let the devil in – hark not that lonely evil These are strange times in which we dwell The Dark Brothers in the mist Follow the lull of their secret tryst For the great God Jarbulon An oath sworn on the Ashlar stone Light the fire and I'll tell you a tale of the times long past When the rock was still so ancient; there druids sat In times of old in Brigantia's foldwhen the Celts held sway The great rock stood and drank their blood on the solstice day And in the Dark Age time when the Vikings arrived the dark rock saw Infernal rites held to the skies and the lord of war And I heard tell there that under Norman's glare The Knights Templar came To pray to the baphomet and their dark covens make It's been many years since sabbats on the hill they reigned And witches laughed through the hoary nights Devils to raise The grey stone sits in silence but its shadow looms And called the souls of evil men towards their dooms