The Great Selkie-Avalon Rising/Kristoph Klover/Margaret Davis/Scott Irwin

[ti:The Great Selkie] [ar:Avalon Rising/Kristoph Klover/Margaret Davis/Scott Irwin] [al:Avalon Rising] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.00]The Great Selkie - Avalon Rising/Kristoph Klover/Margaret Davis/Scott Irwin [00:04.98]In Norway there dwelt a maid [00:10.63] [00:12.04]By'loo my baby she begins [00:18.07] [00:18.92]Saying little know I my baby's father [00:23.97]Or if land or see he's living in [00:31.00] [00:32.67]Then there arose at her bed's foot [00:37.05]A grumley ghaist I'm sure was he [00:41.47] [00:41.98]Saying here am I thy baby's father [00:49.72]Although that I'm not comely [00:56.91] [00:58.40]I am a man upon the land [01:02.47]And I am a selkie in the sea [01:07.67]And when I am in my own country [01:15.00]My dwelling is Shule Skerry [01:22.04] [01:38.61]Then he's taken out a purse of gold [01:43.05]And he has put it upon her knee [01:48.01]Saying give to me my little wee son [01:54.97] [01:55.66]And take thee up thy nurse's fee [02:01.90] [02:04.25]And it shall come to pass on a summer's day [02:08.41]When the sun shines bright on every stone [02:13.95]That I shall take out my little wee son [02:20.21] [02:21.32]And teach him for to swim in the foam [02:28.90] [02:29.84]And you shall marry a gunner good [02:35.49] [02:37.08]And a proud young gunner I'm sure he'll be [02:43.71] [02:44.74]And he'll go out on a fine May morning [02:51.28] [02:52.27]And kill both my young son and me [02:58.48] [03:18.12]And lo she did marry a gunner good [03:24.14] [03:25.18]And a proud young gunner I'm sure was he [03:32.61]And ther very first shot that he did shoot [03:39.57] [03:40.17]It killed both the son and the Great Selkie [03:49.26] [04:10.17]In Norway there dwelt a maid [04:16.35] [04:17.29]By'loo my baby she begins [04:23.68] [04:24.74]Saying little know I my baby's father [04:30.51] [04:32.15]Or if land or sea he's living in