Korelias Song
Recorded by Ceili's Muse  Written by David “Iolo Fitzowen” Watson  This one really needs harmony, though it can be done singly.  My family loves the story.  The line about the dance of "shifting and changing" gave my husband goosebumps!

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Oh the Bard of East March's fair sorcerous daughter
              F                   C                      G                G7
Was enamoured unseemly by the Fool of her Lord
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Though the Duke was deemed handsome, he'd a soul vain and petty
            F                C                     G                      Am
and a mind that was empty as last summer's board.

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Oh, the Fool, he was clever and he sang for his Lady
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Like the nightingales piping in green summer halls
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But his station was lowly and his body was aging
                  F                   C                G                 Am
And their love was as hopeless as if he were stone

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Now, the Lady has led them, the Fool and her husband
           F                C              G                       G7
To a cool secret garden by midsummer's moon
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And she's danced them the dance there of shifting and changing
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And she's left them dumbfounded by sorcery's rune

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And she's left the Fool crying to the gods of his father
                 F                    C                       G                     G7
She has led the Duke laughing to her high chamber door
                     C                     G                     Am                      Em
And she's kept him there softly thorough two days bright dawning
                 F                 C                  G                 Am           C       G7    C
And the servants all gossiped in wonder and awe      Ahhhh - oo - oo

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Oh, the Fool he died in madness saying he'd been ensorcelled
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The Duke only smiles his sad secret smile
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Now the Duke rules his people with wit and good humor
                F                  C             G                  Am
And he sings for his Lady the nightingale's song

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And she's borne him five children:  two sons and three daughters
                          F                    C                      G            G7
And they've grown tall and handsome and sorcerers all
                    C                  G                       Am             Em
And they dance in the garden and they sing in the moonlight
                  F                 C             G                      Am          C         G7    C
Like the nightingales piping in green summer halls.    Ahhhh - oo – oo

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