Silkie-Joan Baez

[ti:Silkie] [ar:Joan Baez] [al:Volume 2 Trees They Do Grow High] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.00]Silkie - Joan Baez (琼·贝兹) [00:13.65]An earthly nurse sits and sings [00:19.37] [00:21.01]And aye she sings a lily wean - [00:27.49] [00:28.25]"Little ken I my bairn's father [00:33.80] [00:35.15]Far less the land where he dwells in " [00:41.82] [00:47.63]For he's come one night to her bed's foot [00:54.03] [00:54.90]And a grumly guest I'm sure he'd be [01:01.03] [01:01.88]Saying "Here am I thy bairn's father [01:07.97] [01:09.15]Although I be not comely [01:14.85] [01:21.60]"I am a man upon the land [01:27.78] [01:28.85]I am a silkie on the sea [01:34.58] [01:35.60]And when I'm far and far from land [01:42.17] [01:42.87]My home it is the sule skerrie " [01:48.85] [01:55.26]And he has ta'en a purse of gold [02:01.56] [02:02.52]And he had placed it upon her knee [02:08.33] [02:09.19]Saying "Give to me my little young son [02:15.25] [02:16.10]And take thee up thy nurse's fee [02:22.37] [02:28.74]I will come to pas on a summer's day [02:34.73] [02:35.78]When the sun shine's bright on every stane [02:42.01] [02:42.97]I'll come and fetch my little young son [02:48.89] [02:49.98]And teach him how to swim the faem [02:56.08] [03:02.07]"And ye shall marry a gunner bold [03:08.32] [03:10.70]And a right fine gunner I'm sure he'll be [03:16.59] [03:19.09]And the very first shot that ever he shoots [03:25.20] [03:26.65]Will kill both my young son and me "