[Intro] [Spoken Word / Pickup Line] "Well, hello there once again, dear friends... Let’s put the hymnals aside tonight and step up for a true summer barn dance among the birch leaves out here in the north." [Acoustic guitar strums, singing fiddle melody, warm 102 BPM beat starts] [Verse 1] Scents of crushed birch across the wooden floor The grandfather clock strikes past midnight once more A traveling preacher tunes a lonesome string While coffee brews down where the meadows ring Old women sigh to church hymns and song Men boast of draft horses steady and strong Yet out in the shadows behind the barn door A silent white prayer turns to something far more! [Chorus] [Full band swing, crying pedal steel, broad harmony chorus] Dance in the barn till the morning burns red Where soft summer winds brush the ground where we tread Between sacred old psalms and the heat of the dark Beneath rustling leaves where the young leave their mark There are secrets this timbered valley still keeps Of the hours when love in the shadows still leeps! [Interlude - Pedal Steel & Fiddle Duet] [Verse 2] Hushed, wicked laughter in the branches so high Underneath Hälsingland’s radiant sky Whispers of coursing through the midsummer night A sweet, reckless fever in the fading twilight When accordions quiet and morning unfolds No preacher can tell where the wanderer roams [Bridge - Spoken Word over soft Telecaster plucking] "Yes... cold lemonade and fresh-baked rye in the final embers of a midsummer night. That was when even the shyest farmhand found fire in his eyes." [Guitar Solo - Telecaster Twang] [Chorus] [Maximum folkpark warmth, rich layered vocals, singing fiddle] Dance in the barn till the morning burns red Where soft summer winds brush the ground where we tread Between sacred old psalms and the heat of the dark Beneath rustling leaves where the young leave their mark There are secrets this timbered valley still keeps Of the hours when love in the shadows still leeps! [Outro] [Pedal steel softly weeps over rhythmic acoustic strumming, gentle fade-out] Out in the barn... Where the birch hides the spark. A night lost forever out here in the dark. [Final guitar chime] [End]
