[91] 63. Rick Wakeman with Ramon Remedios - The Oracle

[1991] 63. Rick Wakeman with Ramon Remedios - The Oracle 

 

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Rick Wakeman with Ramon Remedios - A Suite of Gods ('88, 25th) 

 

1. Dawn of Time [4:45] 

2. The Oracle [4:32] 

3. Pandora's Box [5:46] 

4. Chariot of the Sun [4:20] 

5. The Flood [8:31] 

6. The Voyage of Ulysses [4:21] 

7. Hercules [23:18] 

 

Ramon Remedios - Vocals (Tenor) 

Rick Wakeman - Keyboards 

Tony Fernandez - Percussion 

 

 

 

2. The Oracle 

 

Once an Oracle warned of danger to the King of Thebes 

For his life and for his child 

So from the crib he took his new-born son 

Gave him to a herdsman with orders he should kill him 

 

But the herdsman, filled with pity 

Could not kill the child but left him tied against a tree 

Found by a peasant who took him to his masters 

Where he was adopted : Oedipus they named him 

 

After many years the King was travelling 

When his way was blocked by a chariot 

He ordered him to move away 

But because he was slow to obey 

They killed his steed 

The stranger, enraged, murdered the King 

The stranger's name was Oedipus 

He, unware, had killed his father 

Little did he know he would soon be King 

So the prophecy reached fulfilment 

The warning of the Oracle had had its way

https://youtu.be/anoIvNitHGE?si=oSkfzn0uycvwFfuZ

Rick Wakeman & Ramon Remedios - The Oracle