The Seal-Woman

Songs (31)

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Prelude

Sure, here on this lone rock in the sea am I… (Cailleach)

Pillow’d on the sea wrack brown am I… (Seal-Woman, Seal-Sister)

Was I sleeping or dreaming, or did I hear the Seal-Women singing? (Cailleach)

Iuraibh o hi... / For the isles my heart is weary, ho ro… (Fishermen)

But short the time ere ebbing tide… (Islesman, Fishermen)

Shall I again upon this isle behold the vision… (Islesman)

Bheir mi ò ro bham o… (Islesman)

Ionn da, Ionn do… (Seal-Woman, Seal-Sister, Cailleach, Fishermen)

Far sails the boat… (Seal-Sister, Seal-Woman)

Avore, my love! Avore, my joy! (Water-Kelpie)

Strange longings have I and forebodings on me tonight... (Seal-Woman, Seal-Sister)

Sleep beneath the foam o’ the waves… (Seal-Sister)

Sea enchantment! Loveliest blood-drop! (Islesman, Seal-Sister, Seal-Woman)

O pale dark woman of the sea… (Islesman, Seal-Woman, Seal-Sister)

The sea calls me deep from its purple ridges… (Seal-Woman, Seal-Sister, Islesman)

Interlude: ‘An Eriskay Lullaby’ (Taladh Eirisgeach)

Ho Dhilsead! To the Kyles and the ships o’ Dhiarmad! (Fishermen, Cailleach)

Mach keel yoro, heeree ahoo-o... (Cailleach, Fishermen)

Ailean Duinn, thou lure o’ liltin’... (Cailleach) / Swan o’ the west... (Swan-Maidens)

Horororo, far o’er the sea... (Cailleach)

My thousand blessings on thee, Cailleach… (Islesman)

O Mhairead Òg! (Islesman)

Mind’st thou, Cailleach, that fateful night… (Islesman)

Welcome art thou, dame… (Seal-Woman, Cailleach, Fishermen, Islesman)

Hu ru rithill iu riuaro… (Seal-Woman, Islesman)

So sweet is Morag… (Seal-Woman)

The sea! The sea! from its purple ridges… (Seal-Woman, Seal-Sister)

My child! my child! But what bring’st thou? (Seal-Woman)

Run thou now within. Ionn da, Ionn do… (Seal-Woman)

Now goes she from us, dream of my heart! (Islesman, Seal-Woman)

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