Morning Glory

Morning Glory Sun | Trees | Sun Queen | Blood Mother | Cailleagh | Sarajevo | Ana Ana | The Hazelwood | Manannan | Wych Elm | Messiah | Merry Meet

1. Morning Glory Sun - P. Thin Carolan

Morning Glory Sun 
See Super Nova 
Shaking loose his Golden hair 
Spreads his Goodness everywhere 
Morning Glory Sun. 

2. Trees - R. Drury

Trees, trees are wondrous things 
Leaves and flowers flutter in the breeze 
Twisting and turning into the sky 
Spiralling up into the night. 

Centuries marked upon these trees 
Mystical stories unfold in the wind 
Golden leaves they shower the sky 
Sunlight beams through them as they twirl and fly. 

3. Sun Queen - Hall

Leafy green, ever the Spring Queen 
Comes to my door 
Blossom of snow what do you know 
In your own heart? 
Rainbows of dew sparkling new 
As ever before 
Now we are here joy sheds a tear 
Time come to start we're falling apart 
'Cos you're never alone 
Feel it grow in the bone 
Warm breath of fellows unseen 
From an inch to an hour 
Like a ripening flower 
Pulse from a stem 
To a wakening dream. 

Sun Queen, shimmering downstream 
Dazzle my soul in a daydream, 
Sun Queen, shimmering downstream 
Dazzle my soul. 

Sister come slowly where your soil is loamy 
Your wish is my desire 
Your love I kindle like flax round a spindle 
Come let me sit by your fire 
Let me stir tenderly your cauldron of memory 
And warm up the love in your heart 

Let me cook millet in your copper skillet 
And taste of it, lest we forget 
That you're never alone 

Sun Queen, shimmering downstream 
Dazzle my soul in a daydream, 
Dazzle my soul, Queen of the maybe summertime. 

4. Blood Mother - Hall

I wanna crumble into your dust 
Drown in your seas 
Burn up with your desire 
Blow away in your breeze. 

The chattering stones and gurgling streams 
The warmth of the sun and the caressing breeze 
You are my Blood, 
Blood Mother. 

Red is the colour of the river of life 
Black is your body there are stars in your eyes 
Deep in your womb my spirit is sleeping 
Deep in my heart your spirit is stirring 

Put it in the pot fill the thing up 
You know there's enough to fill everyone's cup (up) 
Blood Mother. 

5. Cailleagh - Hall

Little boy sitting at the window 
Watching the world go by 
Somewhere out in Srebrenica 
Another boy has to die 
Watching the sky as the clouds turn to rain 
Wondering if it has to be this way 
Again and again 

Chorus: 
Cailleagh... Mother of all 
The night crow comes 
To show us our world 
Cailleagh... come when we call 
The night crow comes 
To purify our souls. /us all (on last verse) 

Mama crow sitting on the rooftop 
Watches the world with one eye 
Spreading out her feathered wings 
She utters a warning cry 
Look deep within to investigate the cause 
She will change everything, we can but do 
That which is ours. 

(Chorus) 

Om kang Kalika Nama Om 

6. Sarajevo - Kathy Jones/Lite

In Sarajevo the people are dying, Oh no 
The children and mothers are dying, Oh no 
In Sarajevo the men with guns are killing 
At Medjugorye she warned us all 

(Chorus) 

Sarajevo, Siskei, Somalia 

In Siskei the people are dying, Oh no 
The children and mothers are dying, Oh no 
In Siskei the men with guns are killing 
At Medjugorye Mary asked we pray 

(Chorus) 

In Somalia the people are dying, Oh no 
The children and mothers are dying, Oh no 
In Somalia the men with guns are killing 
Oh the Queen of heaven, she warned us all 

7. Ana Ana - Jones/Hall

Ana Ana, Dana Danu 
Annis, Anu, Rhiannon 
O Morgana, triple Ana 
Ave, Avu, Avalon. 

8. The Hazelwood - W.B. Yeats/traditional/Drury

I went out to the hazelwood 
Because a fire was in my head 
And I cut and trimmed a hazel wand 
And hooked a berry to a thread 

And when white moths were on the wing 
And moth-like stars were flickering out 
I dropped a berry in a stream 
And caught a little silver trout 

And when I laid it on the floor 
And went to blow the fire aflame 
Something rustled on the floor 
And someone called me by my name 

It had become a glimmering girl 
With apple blossoms in her hair 
Who called me by name and ran 
And faded through the brightening air 

Now when I'm old from wandering 
Through hollow lands and hilly lands 
I will find out where she has gone 
And kiss her lips and take her hands 

And walk among tall dappled grass 
And pluck till time and times are done 
The silver apples of the moon 
The golden apples of the sun. 

9. Manannan - Hall

Watching the mist come rolling in 
Tracing soggy circles on the mossy ground 
Making tea at my grandad's hearth 
Listening out for the pixie's laugh 
Manannan 

The compass point turns round and round 
Will we ever be found 
Standing stone on barren ground 
Point us home from the pixie's path 
Manannan 

Falling rain on iron road 
Bring me a chariot to carry my load 
Take us home for tea and for buns 
And happy tell-tales of pixie land 
Manannan 
Guardian of the summerland  

10. Wych Elm - N. Durakis

I told him 'No don't cut the Wych elm down 
She's been standing in the forest at the gateway to our town 
Since the men in black with their wooden crosses came' 

Bella was a woman who lived in our village 
Healing the sick and tending her land 
Every child born owed its life to our Bella 
My first breath was drawn by the touch of her hand 

Don't put your axe against her I swear that she will bleed 
Woodsman she's a woman leave her in peace' 

Came there a young man down to our village 
Clothes black as night-time with eyes bright and cold 
The folk of the village he loved as a priest loves 
But Bella he loved as a young man brave and bold 

I cannot be yours I belong to the Earth sir 
You cannot be mine you are sworn to the sky 
Take heed of your vows priest the Gods cannot be cheated 
Not even by a heart that is deceived by the eye 

Your words gentle Bella they mark me for callow 
And I swear by the Christ now so mark my words well 
If you will not love me you'll go to none other 
As a witch you will burn I consign thee to Hell 

She's guarded by God and by powers unknown 
If you value your life/(soul) woodsman leave her alone 

On the eve of All Hallows as Bella was dancing 
In the light of her beacon - naked and free 
Out from the darkness a priest came a-walking 
Bella tonight you will lie here with me 

The ground underneath them it growled and trembled 
The couple were shaken and Bella broke free 
And when the quake was over the clearing was empty 
The priest stood alone 'twixt a fire and a tree 

Gone is the woodsman gone from this village 
Here in the forest I now walk alone 
In the clearing the Wych elm still stands by the river 
In the grass lies an axe and a pillar of stone 

11. Messiah - Somers/Hall/Lepchani

Many mouths say Messiah, 
Messiah when will come 
He will rise by the standing stones 
Rise by the rising Sun King 

Many mouths say the Mother 
The Mother she comes soon 
She was born with the pregnant earth 
Rise with the waxing Moon Mother, Maya Mother 

Many mouths say the child 
The child when will come (repeat) 
The child is born in all of us 
For now our time has come 

12. Merry Meet - traditional, arrangement by Silver on the Tree

May the circle be open yet unbroken 
May the love of God and Goddess be ever in your heart 
Merry meet, merry part, merry meet again.