Autumn's Child
by Captain Beefheart
Originally appeared on Safe As Milk (1967)

Go back ten years ago sunbeams dancing round
Go back ten yeas ago sunbeams dancing down
Autumn's child Autumn's child

Autumn's child got a loophole round her finger
Halo rings her head
Cornhusk hair makes me linger
A cat's stare meet s my dare
A man's chair greets my stare
Gonna be my wife she sang she said
Gonna be my wife gonna spice my life she said
Go back ten years ago sunbeams everywhere
Go back ten years ago sunbeams fill the air

Harvest moon be nimble
Apples bob and tremble
Fish pond streaks love kind
Found the child I have to find
Apples shine share together
Got the time to make her mine
Fish pond streaks love kind
Found the child I had to find

Autumn's child-I met her at a balloon buts picnic
She caught me with the beauty queen
With jade-green eyes buttons and bows and fancy ties
The feet of dust under trees of rust
make them sandals gambol under knees of trust
Gonna be my wife gonna spice my life she sang she said
Gonna be my wife gonna spice my life she said

Go back ten years ago sunbeams shining down
Go back ten years ago sunbeams glancin' round....
Autumn's child...............

"Cold Frosty Morn" is one of my favorites! That melody drew me to Gypsy Guerilla Band for the first time (Jubilee Faire near Peoria). I was instantly enchanted. No, I can't play it--yet. I'm working on it.

While studying toward teacher's certification, I took a class for grade school teachers in which we learned all sorts of rhymes and songs. This is "Autumn Breezes", but they had no composer's credit:
"Autumn Breezes"
When the Summer shuts her eyes,
Naughty Autumn Breeze
Steals away the pretty leaves
From all the forest's trees.

Then they stand so bare and cold
In the frosty air,
Till old Winter comes along
And finds them shiv'ring there.

Kind old Winter pities them,
When the cold winds blow,
So he wraps them snug and warm
In cloaks of fluffy snow.

By the way: I ended up teaching sophomore English, so all of those "songlets" were never sung.

Autumn makes me think of Halloween, but that's quite a different path.