Silkie-Joan Baez

[ti:Silkie] [ar:Joan Baez] [al:Early Joan] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.72]Silkie - Joan Baez (琼·贝兹) [00:01.93] [00:14.06]An earthly nurse sits and sings [00:21.35]And aye she sings a lily wean - [00:28.60]"Little ken I my bairn's father [00:34.20] [00:35.70]Far less the land where he dwells in " [00:42.12] [00:48.72]For he's come one night [00:52.19]To her bed's foot [00:54.53] [00:55.49]And a grumly guest I'm sure he'd be [01:01.89] [01:02.64]Saying "Here am I thy bairn's father [01:08.68] [01:09.85]Although I be not comely [01:14.59] [01:22.41]"I am a man upon the land [01:29.17] [01:29.78]I am a silkie on the sea [01:36.78]And when I'm far and far from land [01:43.06] [01:44.05]My home it is the sule skerrie " [01:50.22] [01:56.46]And he has ta'en a purse of gold [02:02.97] [02:03.81]And he had placed it upon her knee [02:09.74] [02:10.61]Saying "Give to me my little young son [02:16.81] [02:17.68]And take thee up thy nurse's fee [02:24.43] [02:29.80]"And I should come to pas on a summer's day [02:36.61] [02:37.26]When the sun shine's bright [02:40.13] [02:40.86]On every stane [02:43.62] [02:44.64]I'll come and fetch my little young son [02:50.53] [02:51.64]And teach him how to swim the faem [02:57.83] [03:04.03]"And ye shall marry a gunner bold [03:11.14] [03:12.50]And a right fine gunner [03:15.90]I'm sure he'll be [03:18.35] [03:21.11]And the very first shot [03:24.98]That ever he shoots [03:27.16] [03:28.63]Will kill both my young son and me "