Great Selchie Of Skerry-Judy Collins

[ti:Great Selchie Of Shule Skerry] [ar:Judy Collins] [al:Golden Apples Of The Sun] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.00]Great Selchie Of Skerry - Judy Collins [00:12.69]In Norway there sits a maid [00:18.98] [00:19.88]By lou my baby she begins [00:26.69] [00:28.07]Little know I my child's father [00:33.84] [00:34.76]Or if land or sea he's livin' in [00:41.45] [00:44.64]Then there arose at her bed feet [00:51.50] [00:52.75]And a grumbly guest [00:55.42]I'm sure it was he [00:59.15] [01:00.29]Saying here am I thy child's father [01:06.74] [01:07.91]Although that I am not comely [01:15.23] [01:19.44]I am a man upon the land [01:25.80] [01:26.53]I am a selchie in the sea [01:32.07] [01:32.66]And when I am in my own country [01:39.11] [01:39.95]My dwellin' is in Shule Skerry [01:48.40] [01:50.54]And he hath taken a purse of gold [01:57.04] [01:57.59]He hath put it upon her knee [02:03.13] [02:03.64]Saying give to me my little wee son [02:10.34] [02:10.96]And take thee up thy nurse's fee [02:20.04] [02:21.22]And it shall come to pass [02:24.36] [02:25.12]On a summer day [02:27.36] [02:28.62]When the sun shines hot [02:32.91]On every stone [02:35.60] [02:36.26]That I shall take my little wee son [02:42.71] [02:43.69]And I'll teach him for to swim in the foam [02:52.32] [02:53.48]And you will marry a gunner good [02:59.53] [03:00.36]And a proud good gunner I'm sure he'll be [03:07.21] [03:07.90]And he'll go out on a May morning [03:16.51]And he'll kill both my wee son and me [03:26.33] [03:28.08]And low she did marry a gunner good [03:36.12]And a proud good gunner I'm sure it was he [03:44.00] [03:44.82]And the very first shot that ere he did shoot [03:53.33] [03:54.75]He killed the son and the great selchie [04:04.52] [04:15.01]In Norway there sits a maid [04:22.00] [04:22.90]By lou my baby she begins [04:30.89] [04:32.16]Little know I my child's father [04:38.60] [04:39.48]Or if land or sea he's livin' in