C F The trees are bare tonight and there's a chill in my flesh and my bones, G7 F C Till the red moon shines, sets the sky on fire, warms up the winter wind that moans. C F My love is like a snowy white owl, sitting high in a sycamore tree, G7 F C Reserving of his countenance and his affection for me. Chorus: C Fever Moon, Fever Moon, F Take him to your bosom soon, G7 C Fill him with your heat, with your fire. C Or turn him into cinders, F G7 Let his heart to ashes fall, G7 C If I not be the one that he desires.
Sunlight on his pretty face did turn my head one day, And I was taken with his gentle voice, but he did not look my way. Oh I released my dearest prayer on a moonlight night like this, Leave a lock of his chestnut hair, and I leave it with a kiss.
Chorus.
Like turtle doves we'll never part, once we are finally wed, And he says, “I do,” the ceremony is through, and we're safe in our wedding bed. I see him with no other love kneel down upon that day, There's a spell to cast on a love to last, and preserve his life I pray.