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Listen to our mysterious song with words from the famous poem of William Blake (and just a touch of the Jungle Book thrown in). By the way, it's Blake's old fashioned spelling of "Tyger".

Sung by Jana
Set to music by Bertie
Featuring guitar & piano played by Andy.

Tyger, Tyger
Verse
Tyger, Tyger, burning bright,
In the forests of the night;
What immortal hand or eye,
Could frame thy fearful symmetry?

Verse
In what distant deeps or skies.
Burnt the fire of thine eyes?
On what wings dare he aspire?
What the hand, dare seize the fire?

Chorus
Shere Khan, burning bright,
In the forests of the night;
Tyger, tyger burning bright.

Verse
And what shoulder, & what art,
Could twist the sinews of thy heart?
And when thy heart began to beat,
What dread hand? & what dread feet?

Verse
What the hammer? what the chain,
In what furnace was thy brain?
What the anvil? what dread grasp,
Dare its deadly terrors clasp!

Chorus

When the stars threw down their spears
Water'd heaven with their tears:
Did he smile his work to see?

Shere Khan, burning bright,
In the forests of the night;
Did he who made the Lamb make thee