hey does anyone here know if the song "nights in white satin" could have an alternate spelling of "knights in white satin?'

No, but I have often teased about it. I said when I first heard the song, all I could picture in my mind was a Knight dressed in white satin riding on a white horse. I didn't get many laughs!

May all our Hopes, Wishes, and Dreams come true...

No. I've seen it misspelled "Knights" many times, but it's not an alternate title. If you look at the lyrics, it really doesn't make sense:

Knights in white satin
Never reaching the end
Letters I've written
Never meaning to send

Does a knight dressed in white really fit into the context of never reaching the end? Maybe to some, but not to me ^_^


For some short time, for a while,
you and I were joined to eternity

Search for the song on Napster and you're bound to find it spelled Knights, basically just due to the ineptness/ignorance of whomever recorded the song onto his/her computer. Similar case in point: there is a legion of younger listeners who think "Cats in the Cradle" is by Cat Stevens simply because this Harry Chapin classic was misattributed to Cat on an MP3 file, more and more people downloaded it over time (it becomes an exponential process before long) and voila.

As far as the lyrics not making sense... it was the sixties after all... ANYTHING was possible!

"Lime and limpid green, a second scene
A fight between the blue you once knew.
Floating down, the sound resounds
Around the icy waters underground.
Jupiter and Saturn, Oberon, Miranda and Titania.
Neptune, Titan, Stars can frighten.

Blinding signs flap
Flicker, flicker, flicker blam. Pow, pow.
Stairway scare, Dan Dare who's there?
Lime and limpid green, the sounds around the icy waters under
Lime and limpid green, the sounds around the icy waters underground. "

--Syd Barrett, 1967.

and why do you speak of SATIN?


KNIGHTS IN WHITE COTTON ~ Set to Nights in White Satin

Knights in white cotton
Spine's shivers we send,
Howls from h_ell's bottom
Some soul's reaching his end.

Ghosties I've always been
In these cloths of soft white,
Some say I'm just a dream
I can say I'm a fright.

'Cos I haunt you,
Yes I haunt you,
Oh! How I haunt you.

Waving at people
With a scythe in my hand,
Just what I'm going to do
They can't understand

Some try to tell me
That's it's time I grew up
Just what I want to be
I will be in the end

And I haunt you,
Yes I haunt you,
Oh! How I haunt you!
Oh! How I haunt you!

Knights in white cotton
We'll give you a fright;
There's nothing I've put on
That'll turn your hair white

Spectres I've often been
With these sheets before;
Just why your hair's grey
I can't say any more

'Cos I haunt you,
Yes I haunt you,
Oh! How I haunt you!
Oh! How I hauntyou!

'Cos I haunt you,
Yes I haunt you,
Oh! How I haunt you!
Oh! How I haunt you!




This was written by a friend....

greetz ed

He will always haunt me, that's for sure..lol...
And, I love him!

May all our Hopes, Wishes, and Dreams come true...

They had so much fun with that when he posted it at H&H. He really had a great sense of humor.
Thanks for posting that, Ed. It made me smile.