Silkie-Joan Baez

[ti:Silkie] [ar:Joan Baez] [al:Simplify Matters] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.25]Silkie - Joan Baez [00:00.91]Written by：Traditional [00:01.63] [00:12.82]An earthly nurse sits and sings [00:20.62]And aye she sings a lily wean [00:27.57]And little ken I my Bairn's father [00:34.71]Far less the land [00:38.45]Where he dwells in [00:44.35] [00:47.28]For he's come one night to her bed's feet [00:54.35]And a grumly guest I'm sure was he [01:01.46]Saying here am I thy Bairn's father [01:07.98] [01:08.61]Although I be not comely [01:17.49] [01:20.91]I am a man upon the land [01:28.33]I am a silkie on the sea [01:35.23]And when I'm far and far from land [01:41.76] [01:42.41]My home it is in sule skerrie [01:52.87] [01:54.82]And he has ta'en a purse of gold [02:02.11]And he had placed it upon her knee [02:08.79]Saying give to me my little young son [02:15.76]And take thee up thy nurse's fee [02:27.92]And it shall come to pass on a summer's day [02:35.23]When the sun shine's bright on every stane [02:42.43]I'll come and fetch my little young son [02:49.00] [02:49.56]And teach him how to swim the faem [02:59.83] [03:01.49]And ye shall marry a gunner bold [03:10.07]And a right fine gunner I'm sure he'll be [03:18.41]And the very first shot that ever he shoots [03:25.07] [03:26.26]Will kill both my young son and me