The Great Selkie-Cécile Corbel

[ti:The great Selkie] [ar:Cécile CORBEL] [al:SongBook Vol. 2] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.00]The Great Selkie - Cécile Corbel [00:10.50]An earthly nurse sits and sings [00:15.41]And aye she sings by lily wean [00:20.21]Saying "Little ken I my bairn's father [00:25.25]Far less the land where he dwells in" [00:29.94]For he came on night to her bed feet [00:35.35]And a grumbly guest i'm sure was he [00:39.65]Saying "Here am I thy bairn's father [00:45.14]Although I be not comely" [00:50.06]"I am a man upon the land [00:54.84]I am a silkie on the sea [00:59.85]And when I'm far and far frae land [01:04.68]My home it is in sule skerrie" [01:18.82]And he had ta'en a purse of gold [01:24.00]And he had placed it upon her knee [01:28.79]Saying Give to me my little young son [01:33.92]And take thee up thy nurse's fee [01:38.75]"And it shall come to pass on a summer's day [01:43.71]When the sun shines bright on every stane [01:48.54]I'll come and fetch my little young son [01:53.72]And teach him how to swim the faem" [01:58.67]"I am a man upon the land [02:03.54]I am a silkie on the sea [02:08.54]And when I'm far and far frae land [02:13.35]My home it is in sule skerrie [02:18.21]"And ye shall marry a gunner good [02:23.24]And fine gunner I'm sure he'll be [02:28.17]And the very first shot that e'er he shoots [02:33.24]Will kill both my young son and me [02:38.32]"I am a man upon the land [02:43.28]I am a silkie on the sea [02:48.09]And when I'm far and far frae land [02:52.98]My home it is in sule skerrie"