I've got a d**h bone in my flute The machinery of the salute Said the Etruscan shepherd I speak the language of the birds But I won't repeat the things I've heard And the lamb lies down with the leopard Let the phallus mark my route With a lingam stone and a twin-head flute Said the Etruscan shepherd We're more alive here in our tombs Than you people in your rooms And the lamb lies down with the leopard We make love at the chariot race Theopompus of Chios says And I'm the Etruscan shepherd Little birds are little girls That fly like augurs through the world And the lamb lies down with the leopard The women go with anyone at the tomb of Triclinium Said the Etruscan shepherd The black-faced lion lies with the deer
The cat with the dove and the fawn with the steer And the lamb doth lie with the leopard Lightning's not the collision of clouds The clouds collide when the lightning allows Said the Etruscan shepherd Let us row to Elba's shore Where the copperhead people mine their ore And the lamb lies down with the leopard If you need me I'll be whitening bones Up beside the lingam stones Said the Etruscan shepherd Up on the hillside with my flute Coaxing budding from the shoots And the lamb lies down with the leopard Naked through the universe Dive in the sea to quench your thirst Said the Etruscan shepherd d**h is a friend to the living ones The hidden lining in darkness shines And the lamb lies down with the leopard