Silkie Joan Baez

[Intro – Music instruments play]

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An earthly nurse sits and sings
And aye she sings a lily wean
And the little ken I my bairn's father
Far less the land that he dwells in

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For he came one night to her bed’s foot
And a grumly guest I'm sure was he
Saying, “Here am I, thy bairn's father
Although I be not comely”
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I am a man upon the land
I am a silkie in the sea
And when I'm far and far from land
My home it is in sule skerrie

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And he has ta'en a purse of gold
And he had placed it upon her knee
Saying, "Give to me my little young son
And take thee up thy nurse's fee”