The Piper
by ABBA

Album: Super Trouper (1980)
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  • They came from the hills
    And they came from the valleys and the plains
    They struggled in the cold
    In the heat and the snow and in the rain
    Came to hear him play
    Play their minds away

    We're all following a strange melody
    We're all summoned by a tune
    We're following the piper
    And we dance beneath the moon
    We're following the piper
    And we dance beneath the moon for him
    And we dance beneath the moon
    Sub luna saltamus

    They came from the south
    From the west and the north and from the east
    They waited for the man
    Like a parish is waiting for the priest
    Longed to hear him play
    Play their minds away

    We're all following a strange melody
    We're all summoned by a tune
    We're following the piper
    And we dance beneath the moon
    We're following the piper
    And we dance beneath the moon for him
    And we dance beneath the moon
    Sub luna saltamus

    He gave them a dream
    He seduced everybody in the land
    The fire in his eyes
    And the fear was a weapon in his hand
    So they let him play
    Play their minds away

    We're all following a strange melody
    We're all summoned by a tune
    We're following the piper
    And we dance beneath the moon
    We're following the piper
    And we dance beneath the moon for him
    And we dance beneath the moon

    And we dance beneath the moon Writer/s: Benny Goran Bror Andersson, Bjoern K. Ulvaeus
    Publisher: Sony/ATV Music Publishing LLC, Universal Music Publishing Group
    Lyrics licensed and provided by LyricFind

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