[Northkeep] Looking for a song--Hey Emily, Blackhawk,Ragnar

[Loralei]

THANKS so mcuh...not 5 min after i posted..I remembered the frillen name to it..I stillhave the
chords memorized as well. 


I recall about 17 years ago, sitting at a Steppes warlord, Inman McMoore borrowed my 12 string and
sat and played/sang this for my encampment...

thank you
--- Jennifer Carlson <talana1 at hotmail.com> wrote:

> Lady Lann,
> 
> I believe it's called "Kirelia's Song" and was written by Master Iolo 
> Fitzowen of Bryn Gwlad.  I may have the spelling of the name wrong.
> 
> Over the years I've heard minor changes in the wording - such is the way 
> with folk songs; these are the words I learned:
> 
> 
> The Baron of Eastmarch's fair, sorcerous daughter
> Was enamored unseemly with the fool of her lord
> Though her duke was deemed handsome
> He'd a soul vain and petty
> And a dark mind as empty
> As last summer's gourd
> 
> Now the fool, he was clever, and sang for the lady
> Like a nightingale piping in a deep forest grove
> But his station was lowly,
> And his body was aging
> And their love was as hopeless
> As if he were stone
> 
> So the lady has led them, the fool and her husband
> To her deep secret garden, by the midsummer's moon
> And she's danced them a spell there,
> Of shifting and changing
> And left them dumbfounded
> By sorcery's boon
> 
> She's left the fool crying to the gods of his fathers
> She has led her duke, laughing, to her high chamber door
> And she's kept him there softly
> Through two day's bright dawnings
> While the servants all gossip
> In wonder and awe
> 
> Now the fool died in madness, saying he was ensorceled
> And the duke only smiled him a sad, secret smile
> Now the duke rules his people
> With wit and good humor
> And sings for his lady
> A nightingale song
> 
> And she's borne him five children, two sons and three daughters
> And they've grown straight and handsome, and sorcerers all
> And they dance in the garden
> And sing in the moonlight
> Like nightingales piping
> In a green forest grove
> 
> 
> Hope this helps,
> 
> Talana
> 
> 
> >From: Loralei <loraleiriney at yahoo.com>
> >Reply-To: The Barony of Northkeep <northkeep at lists.ansteorra.org>
> >To: The Barony of Northkeep 
> ><northkeep at lists.ansteorra.org>,mooneschadowe at yahoogroups.com,A 
> >multi-household family 
> ><front-porch at lists.pug.net>,thejpandowenshow at yahoogroups.com
> >Subject: [Northkeep] Looking for a song--Hey Emily, Blackhawk,Ragnar
> >Date: Thu, 21 Dec 2006 07:53:31 -0800 (PST)
> >
> >Okay folks..sorry to interrupt.
> >But there is a song that I used to perform when I was in ansteorrea...so 
> >think back a few years..
> >Roz also did it ( the song) a few times.
> >
> >the gist of the song is:
> >
> >King who was not nice and didn't care for wife of kingdom
> >Wife falls in love with a jester
> >
> >She ensourceers ( bewitches them) and switches the souls of both..actually 
> >in the song the one
> >goes mad
> >they have 4 children, all with gifts and they dance and they dance like a 
> >midsummer moon...
> >
> >I can even see the paper it was written on, remember the chords..but not 
> >the frillen NAME of it or
> >all the words..
> >
> >Can anyone helps she who turned 40 and now has no memory...
> >
> >Thanks..
> >Lady Lann
> >
> >
> >
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