COVEN
COVEN IN CHARING CROSS
WITCHCRAFT DESTROYS MINDS
AND REAPS SOULS (1969)
Written by James Vincent who uses the name "Jim Donlinger" on the album credits
to hide his identity because of the whole production of what the album stood for,
he was asked to write the lyrics after studying occultist books 

Gm 
Thirteen cultists
Held a secret meeting,
                 F 
Bringing powers of the darkness
C             Dm 
Upon those who opposed them.
Gm 
The cheif of the circle,
Known as Malchius
                F 
Drank the blood of a young baby
Dm 
Offered unto him.
Eb
They danced ecstatically,
F
The orgied frantically.
D             F 
The demon had arisen
Gm                 F 
From the circle on the floor.
Am                  
The chanting was much louder
                       F     Ebm  C  D   
And more piercing than before.

Bbm G 

(chanting interlude/no instruments played)
They are seven.
They are seven.
Seven are they.
Out of the abyss they rise,
When day sinks into darkness.
Seven are they.

Gm    E 
Coven in charing cross...
Gm    E 
Coven in charing cross...

Gm 
Soon, a certain family
Living in the village,
C
Would die one by one 
Gm             Dm 
from the curse of the cult.
D  Gm 
The head of the family,
A witchhunter named Mead,
C                     
Had burned their leader at the stake;
Dm 
Soon he'd regret his deed.
Eb 
Pain from Devil's we evoke!
E                 F 
Thirst and suffer til he'd choked.
Am            Gm 
The magic did take over
F           Gm         F 
And the soul did feel the roar.
Am          Cm      Gm 
Incantations were much louder
F                         Eb    C  D 
And more piercing than before.

B Ebm 
Bb Gm 

Born in the bowels of the hills
Evil ones, sources of ills.
Setters of unseen snares,
Death to all pity, all prayers.
Male they are not.
Female they are not.
No wives have they known.
No children begot.
The fiends they are seven,
Disturbers of heaven.
They are seven.
They are seven.
Seven they are.

Gm      E 
Coven in charing cross...
Gm      E 
Coven in charing cross...

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