Great Silkie of the Sules Skerry-Maddy Prior

[ti:Great Silkie of the Sules Skerry] [ar:Maddy Prior] [al:Ravenchild] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.00]Great Silkie of the Sules Skerry - Maddy Prior [00:49.53]An earthly nourris sits and sings [00:58.67] [00:59.72]And aye she sings Ba lilly wean [01:07.94] [01:08.51]And Little ken I my bairn's father [01:16.82] [01:17.67]Far less the land that he staps in [01:27.45] [01:30.21]Then ane arose at her bed fit [01:38.88] [01:39.58]And a grumly guest I'm sure was he [01:47.02] [01:47.80]Saying Here am I thy bairn's father [01:58.39] [01:59.29]Although I am not comely [02:08.45] [02:10.63]I am a man upon the land [02:19.56] [02:20.55]I am a silkie on the sea [02:28.58] [02:29.94]And when I'm far frae every strand [02:39.12] [02:40.19]My home it is in Sule Skerry [02:50.68] [03:37.83]Then he has taken a purse of gold [03:44.23] [03:45.41]And he has placed it upon her knee [03:52.95] [03:53.58]Saying give to me my little young son [04:02.56] [04:03.26]And take thee up thy nouriss fee [04:12.82] [04:15.07]And It shall come to pass on a summer's day [04:23.38] [04:24.05]When the sun shines bright on every stone [04:31.27] [04:32.00]I'll come and fetch my little young son [04:40.28] [04:41.16]And teach him for to swim the foam [04:51.45] [04:53.69]And you you shalt marry a proud gunner [05:01.75] [05:02.59]And a proud gunner I'm sure he'll be [05:13.39] [05:14.06]And the very first shot that e're he shoots [05:21.35] [05:23.27]He'll kill both my young son and me