From: Ceri 
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Hiya Everyone,

I found this in the inbox this morning. OK so I'm _miles_ behind in my
mail it was a 1/2 hour walk each way to the hospital, it that a good
enough excuse???  I've no idea of the tunes I'm afraid...



Samhain Songs by Loreena McKennit



	All souls night by Loreena McKennit:

	Bonfires dot the rolling hills 
	Figures dance around and around 
	To drums that pulse out echoes of darkness 
	Moving to the pagan sound

	Somewhere in a hidden memory 
	Images float before my eyes 
	Of fragrant nights of straw and of bonfires 
	And dancing till the next sunrise

	I can see lights in the distance 
	Trembling in the dark cloak of night 
	Candles and lanterns are dancing, dancing 
	A waltz on All Souls Night 

	Figures of cornstalks bend in the shadows 
	Held up tall as the flames leap high 
	The green knight holds the holly bush 
	To mark where the old year passes by 

	I can see the lights in the distance 
	Trembling in the dark cloak of night 
	Candles and lanterns are dancing, dancing 
	A waltz on All Souls Night

	Standing on the bridge that crosses 
	The river that goes out to the sea 
	The wind is full of a thousand voices 
	They pass by the bridge and me 

	I can see the lights in the distance 
	Trembling in the dark cloak of night 
	Candles and lanterns are dancing, dancing 
	A waltz on All Souls Night 




	The old ways by Loreena McKennit:

	The thundering waves are calling me home, home to you 
	The pounding sea is calling me home, home to you 

	On a dark new year's night 
	On the west coast of Clare 
	I heard your voice singing 
	Your eyes danced the song 
	Your hands played the tune 
	T'was a vision before me 

	We left the music behind and the dance carried on 
	As we stole away to the seashore 
	We smelt the brine, felt the wind in our hair 
	And with sadness you paused 

	Suddenly I knew that you'd have to go 
	My world was not yours, your eyes told me so 
	Yet it was there I felt the crossroads of time 
	And I wondered why 

	As we cast our gaze on the tumbling sea 
	A vision came o'er me 
	Of thundering hooves and beating wings 
	In the clouds above 

	As you turned to go I heard you call out my name, 
	Like a bird in a cage spreading its wings to fly 
	"The old ways are lost," you sang as you flew 
	And I wondered why 

	The thundering waves are calling me home, home to you 
	The pounding sea is calling me home, home to you 



				(from Witches With Brains)



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