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Stolen Child
Words: W. B. Yeats Music: copyright Lorenna McKennitt recorded on her Elemental Album - If you don't have this album yet, you should go out and get it! The chords are as best I can transcribe them. It is a difficult song to sing, requiring a fairly large range, but the imagery is so lovely and it touches a childhood memory in me....
Am
Where dips the rocky highland
Dm Am
Of sleuth wood in the lake
There lies a leafy island
Dm Am
Where flapping herons wake
C G
The drowsy water rats
Dm Am
There we've hid our fairy vats
F G
Full of berries
Am G
And of reddest stolen cherries.C G
Chorus: Come away oh human child
Dm Am
To the waters and the wild
G
With a faery hand in hand
Am
For the world's more full of weeping
Dm Am
Than ye can understandAm
Where the wave of moonlight glosses
Dm Am
The dim grey sands with light
By far off furthest rosses
Dm Am
We foot it all the night
C G
Weaving olden dances
Dm Am
Mingling hands and mingling glances
C G
Till the moon has taken flight
Dm Am
To and fro we leap
F G
And chase the frothy bubbles
Am
Whilst the world is full of troubles
Dm Am
And is anxious in its sleep. ChorusAm
Where the wandering water gushes
Dm Am
From the hills above glen car
In pools among the rushes
Dm Am
That scarce could bathe a star
C G
We seek for slumbering trout
Dm Am
And whispering in their ears
C G
Give them unquiet dreams
Dm Am
Leaning softly out
F G
From ferns that drop their tears
Dm Am
Over the young streams ChorusAm
Away with us he's moving
Dm Am
The solemned eyed
He'll hear no more the lowing
Dm Am
Of the calves on the warm hillside
C G
Or the kettle on the hob
Dm Am
Sing peace unto his breast
F G
Or see the brown mice bob
Dm Am
Round and round the oatmeal chest.Begin Last Chorus: For he comes, the human child...
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