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as posted by tkiriluk on The Well

 Lay Of The Sunflower (Forest Of Fennario)
 Lyrics: Robert Hunter
 Music: Warren Haynes
 
 First played by Phil Lesh and Friends on 31 December 2000. Originally listed
 as "Forest of Fennario" but in fact a setting by Warren Haynes of Robert
 Hunter's "Lay Of The Sunflower"
 
 I must leave you for a season
 Go out logging that hardwood timber
 Hardwood timber that grows so low
 In the forest of Fennario
 
 Tell me what you need to live, love
 Do you ask that you might own
 Take my blue-eyed hound to guard you 
 I will make my way alone
 
 I will not return in winter
 If I be not back by fall
 Seek me when this small sunflower
 Grows above the garden wall 
 
 Chorus:
 Fare you well and I would not weep
 Bid you tend your prayers to keep
 Hill by dale now must I go
 To the forest of Fennario
 
 Nine-month blew with sleeted rain
 And still he came not back again
 Summoned she the hound to go
 To seek him in Fennario
 
 He came back the fated day
 To find his lady gone away
 Made haste to follow in her track
 Where she could go but not turn back
 
 At her side the blue-eyed hound did bay
 While fast her breath did fade away
 She cried out: Turn, my love, and go
 I would not have you see me so
 
 [chorus]
 
 I shall not turn, I shall not yield
 Oh, selfsame serpent sting my heel
 That bleeds my ladys blood away
 Beside the blue-eyed hound to lay
 
 Angels sing their souls to sleep
 Four winds grace their breath to keep
 Up above yon garden wall
 Stands the sunflower, straight and tall
 
 [chorus]
 [chorus]
 Hill by dale now must I go
 To the forest of Fennario
 
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