The Maiden and the Selkie-Heather Dale

[ti:The Maiden and the Selkie] [ar:Heather Dale] [al:The Green Knight] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.00]The Maiden and the Selkie - Heather Dale [00:05.43]Once a fair and handsome Seal Lord [00:08.02]Lay his foot upon the sand [00:10.13]For to woo the Fisher's daughter [00:12.23]And to claim her marriage hand [00:14.85]'I have come in from the ocean [00:17.24]I have come in from the sea [00:19.55]And I'll not go to the waves love [00:22.57]Lest ye come along with me ' [00:25.72]'Lord long have I loved you [00:28.30]As a Selkie on the foam [00:30.83]I would gladly go and wed ye [00:33.18]And be lady of your home [00:35.45]But I cannot go into the ocean [00:38.14]I cannot go into the sea [00:40.68]I would drown beneath the waves love [00:43.59]If I went along with thee ' [00:46.80]'Lady long have I loved you [00:49.37]I would have you for my wife [00:51.85]I will stay upon your shoreland [00:54.34]Though it robs me of my life [00:56.42]I will stay one night beside you [00:59.25]Never go back to the sea [01:01.68]I will stay and be thy husband [01:04.40]Though it be the death of me ' [01:08.04]Dae dae dae da da dae dae [01:18.44] [01:29.24]'Lord I cannot go and wed thee [01:31.78]All to watch my lover die [01:34.19]Since I'll not be left a widow [01:36.49]I have a plan for us to try [01:39.12]Let us speak with my grandmother [01:41.67]Who has ever dwelt beside the sea [01:44.14]She may know some trick or treasure [01:46.88]That I may wed my fair Selkie ' [01:50.49]So they've gone to her grandmother's [01:52.95]Little cottage by the sea [01:55.46]To inquire how a maiden [01:57.91]Can be wed to her Selkie [02:00.46]For the Selkie's watery kingdom [02:02.89]Would surely rob her of her breath [02:05.49]But to stay on land past midnight [02:08.11]It would surely be his death [02:11.80]'Lord I know not how to aid you [02:14.29]You may never live on shore [02:16.70]For your kind to live 'til dawning [02:19.31]It has ne'er been seen before [02:21.59]But my mother had a seal coat [02:24.40]That she buried 'neath the tree [02:26.72]And she told me that its wearer [02:29.16]Would become a fair Selkie ' [02:33.11]Dae dae dae da da dae dae [02:54.46]So they've journeyed farther inland [02:57.11]Though the Seal Lord's getting weak [02:59.37]And she's shouldering the shovel [03:01.89]To unearth the thing they seek [03:04.27]At the rising of the fullmoon [03:06.80]Underneath the elfen oak [03:09.38]She has unearthed that faery treasure [03:11.63]Of which her grandmother spoke [03:15.56]Just before the stroke of midnight [03:18.05]They have made it back to sea [03:20.08]And she has donned the magic seal coat [03:22.87]And become a maid Selkie [03:25.02]Now they've gone into the ocean [03:27.30]Hand in hand into the sea [03:29.95]She has gone along [03:34.80]A fair seal bride for a Selkie [03:37.53] [03:38.68]Dae dae dae da da dae dae