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folk singer with acoustic guitar, singing traditional folk-songs and old ballads, and pagan, specifically druidic.
i play guitar and recorders and sing traditional american, english, irish, scottish and australian folksongs, old ballads and some of my own songs. my own songs tend to have pagan themes, specifically, druidic. sometimes one of my friends joins me and we sing harmonies. very occasionally, we sing in other languages.
Song Info
Genre
Acoustic • Acoustic Folk
Charts
Peak #270
Peak in subgenre #38
Author
trad
Rights
no
Uploaded
April 29, 2010
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MP3 2.4 MB • 128 kbps • 2:40
Story behind the song
i got it from joan baez. there are plenty of other versions around and my rendition has been influenced by some of them.
Lyrics
An earthly nurse sits and sings And nigh she sleeps a lily wean ?And it?s little ken I my bairn?s faither Far less the land where he dwells in.? Oh he came one night to her bed feet And a grumly guest I?m sure was he, Saying,?Here am I, thy bairn?s faither Although I be not comely! I am a man upon the land I am a silkie on the sea And when I?m far and far frae land My hame it is in Sules Skerrie.? And he has ta?en a purse of gold And he has placed it on her knee Saying, ?Gie tae me my little young son And tak? thee up thy nurse?s fee. ?And it shall come tae pass on a summer?s day When the sun shines bricht on ilka stane I?ll come and fetch my little young son And teach him how tae swim the faem.? And ye shall marry a gunner guid And a richt fine gunner I?m sure he?ll be And the very first shot that e?er he shoots Will kill baith my young son and me.
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