Ossian's Return-Cruachan

[ti:Ossian's Return] [ar:Cruachan] [al:Folk Lore] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.00]Ossian's Return - Cruachan [00:25.74]The sky was grey and leaden [00:28.84]Wolves howling on the wind [00:32.22]Above the land of Tr Na n-g [00:35.40]The ancient calm still reigned [00:38.54]I long to stand on my home shore [00:41.76]Said Ossian in a glare [00:44.89]But Ossian love the is your home [00:48.16]Said Niamh of the golden hair [00:51.09]She seen the look upon his face [00:54.44]She knew the pain he felt [00:57.75]He longed to be home among his race [01:00.93]With his ring-sword strapped to his belt [01:04.14]Return my love to the land of man [01:07.08]But be warned time rests heavily there [01:10.58]Come back to me if ever you can [01:13.89]Back to the land of the fair [01:17.21] [01:42.63]Do not dismount from the steed you ride [01:44.57]From this world it belongs [01:45.80]If you dismount you shall fall by its side [01:47.72]To be remembered only in faerie songs [01:49.09]He galloped across the faerie seas [01:50.64]Back to the land of man [01:52.32]Watched by the Gods and the Daoine Sdhe [01:54.00]His life to end as it began [01:55.49]I have returned he said aloud [01:57.00]But no one was there to hear [01:58.65]His noble home once bold and proud [02:00.20]Had crumbled through the many years [02:01.88]A power had come into the land [02:03.49]To threaten the olden ways [02:05.00]The people ignore the ancient Gods [02:06.64]They bid farewell to a golden age [02:08.66] [02:46.89]Ossian stopped his gallant steed [02:49.58]He could see some people ahead [02:53.08]Help us please our brother are trapped [02:56.28]Beneath this dolmen they said [02:59.53]He leaned down from his mount [03:02.61]And gripped the dolmen firm [03:05.88]From the earth the rocks was freed [03:09.05]The people beneath unharmed [03:11.86]But from the strain his saddle broke [03:15.39]To the earth he was cast [03:18.59]A cry of pain burst from his throat [03:21.76]The years now caught him at last [03:24.78]In Tr Na n-g Niamh shed a tear [03:27.89]When she saw the rider-less horse [03:31.51]Ossian was gone her greatest fear [03:34.50]Her heart was full of deep remorse