Little Brown Dog-Judy Collins

[ti:Great Selchie Of Shule Skerry] [ar:Judy Collins] [al:Lets Have A Drink] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.00]Little Brown Dog - Judy Collins [00:12.31]In Norway there sits a maid [00:18.64] [00:19.62]By Lou my baby she begins [00:26.76] [00:27.68]Little know I my child's father [00:33.50] [00:34.44]Or if land or sea he's livin' in [00:40.88] [00:44.96]Then there arose at her bed feet [00:51.19] [00:52.44]And a grumbly guest [00:54.69] [00:55.30]I'm sure it was he [00:58.84] [00:59.74]Saying here am I that child's father [01:06.44] [01:07.82]Although that I am not comely [01:14.52] [01:19.09]I am a man upon the land [01:25.57] [01:26.31]I am a selchie in the sea [01:31.71] [01:32.42]And when I am in my own country [01:38.82] [01:39.61]My dwellin' is in Shule Skerry [01:47.06] [01:50.45]And he hath taken a purse of gold [01:56.76] [01:57.45]He hath put it upon her knee [02:02.53] [02:03.21]Saying give to me my little wee son [02:10.00] [02:10.71]And take thee up that nurse's fee [02:19.35] [02:20.83]And it shall come to pass [02:23.87] [02:24.80]On a summer day [02:26.81] [02:28.20]When the sun shines hot [02:32.04] [02:32.63]On every stone [02:35.23] [02:36.05]That I shall take my little wee son [02:42.49] [02:43.37]And I'll teach him for to swim in the foam [02:51.63] [02:53.18]And you will marry a gunner good [02:59.44] [03:00.10]And a proud good gunner [03:03.62] [03:04.27]I'm sure he'll be and he'll go out on a may morning [03:15.22] [03:16.19]And he'll kill both my wee son and me [03:26.04] [03:27.77]And lo she did marry a gunner good [03:35.29] [03:35.80]And a proud good gunner I'm sure it was he [03:43.67] [03:44.49]And the very first shot that ere he did shoot [03:52.83] [03:54.35]He killed the son and the great Selchie [04:03.63] [04:14.69]In Norway there sits a maid [04:21.88] [04:22.71]By Lou my baby she begins [04:30.79] [04:31.97]Little know I my child's father [04:38.25] [04:39.10]Or if land or sea he's livin' in