Lamp lighters lyric 10/23/2003

I remember as a child the men who would walk the streets of the Lowland’s Vales lighting the lamps. They wore black tailcoats and very tall stovepipe hats. On top of the hats were thick, ornate candles and as they walked under the lamps, their flame would light the oil street lamps.
They would sing to let people know that twilight was coming, since very few people in the lowlands had clocks. They would begin their trek around six o’clock in the evening and be done with their job by eight at which time everyone would be getting ready for bed.
Their song still rings in my ears as the ornge lights of these streets begin to fliker on and the sun sets everything to black…
“The shadows begin to hang on the roof tops.
The night is drawing near.
Here come the lighters to drive back the darkness,
to put to ease your fears.
Sing the light that we bear to the people
Sing the light that shines.
Fear you not the as the shadows grow deeper
We hold back the night.
Sleep you now knowing,
the night will not take you.
There’s always star by your side.”