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[ Original Song Cycle ] [ The Teaching Song ] [ Windwood ] [ Holly, Oak & Ivy ]

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Spring Strathspey - Gwydion Pendderwen

Myrddin was playing his pipes in the wood
And it sounded so good to my feeling,
Hiree, hiroo stirred the dance in my blood
And my fresh maidenhood started reeling.

Chorus:
Sweetly it drew me,
The sound that went through me,
As if sure it knew me:
A maiden-song, laughing long.
I'm sure that I hear it,
O let me draw near it!
I want to be merrily courted in spring.

Round us the trees formed a wheel in my mind,
As if all womankind were careering.
Softly he touched me, our hands intertwined,
As we gently reclined in the clearing.

Chorus

Dewfall to starfall he made love to me
In a manner sae free and revealing;
Swift-footed, light-footed, goat-footed he
Played his sweet melody with such feeling.

Chorus

Daybreak, and I wake to Spring's sweet bouquet
And the glorious day of beginning;
Myrddin is gone on his magical way,
But the Equinox day leaves me spinning.

Chorus

Avalon - Michael Finnegan Rhys

It's a long, long walk to Avalon,
Down a road that few have seen.
It's a long, long time since the bard has sun,
And the Earth was wild and green.

Chorus: Avalon (4X)

Tell me, where can the unicorn lay his head?
Tell me, where have the wood sprites all gone?
Tell me, where have the Sidhe, the proud Dannan fled,
Taking with them the balefire's glad songs?

Chorus

Tell me, how many times must the Sun set down,
With no legends to tell where he goes?
Tell me, how many times can the Moon shine around
On desolation where forests should grow?

Chorus

Comes a dying god, on a bloody cross,
And a Horned Lord of evil to fear-
Pushing men to arms, with their sanity lost,
To draw blood in holy wars.

Chorus

Firsts the Winter snows lay nature to bed,
In the icy death of the year.
Then the springtime Sun shines apon my head,
And I know I have nothing to fear.

It's a long, long walk to Avalon,
Down a road that we can see.
It is not so far, nor it is gone,
Avalon's in you and me.
 

The Oaken Grace - Michael Finnegan Rhys

Neither a lad nor a man was he;
On a palfrey one morning he rode.
Beneath the green bloom of a grand oak tree,
Through the yarrow and crimson dogrose.

One one hand he was his father's son;
Flesh, blood and bone was he formed.
Yet he had the wild heart and he spoke the Old Tongue,
For a heretic boy was he born.

Chorus:

The fool seeks ever outward,
To find the source of the song.
The Lady Faire is always there
If we will dance along.

His mount threw her bridle as around the oak tree
He rode in a sweet waking dream.
She gathered and dallied, then dropped him roughly
On his back in the grasses grown green.

Bruised and befuddled, his temper grew hot,
'Til a maiden's soft voice caught his ear.
He heard her charm lilting and rise he could not,
Spellbound by the lay he could hear.

Instrumental chorus

She like an essence full blown, drifted free;
She danced with a magical sound.
Bold-minded, proud-hearted beauty was she,
As she lifted him up from the ground.

Then he and she danced in the shade of duir-
The step of the Moon and the Sun.
The two become one, as their hearts desire,
And the song, for their love, carries on.

Chorus

Songs by Holly, Oak and Ivy
Vocals - Lady Raven, Jamie Gallegos, Randy Burks
Guitar -  Lady Raven, Jamie Gallegos