Тексты песен LOREENA MCKENNITT

(Loreena McKennitt) 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

(Traditional, arranged by Loreena McKennitt) Harking is bonny and there lives my love My heart lies on him and cannot remove It cannot remove for all that I have done And I never will forget my

(Traditional) I come from hevin which to tell The best nowells that e'er befell To you thir tythings trew I bring And I will of them say and sing. This day to you is born ane child Of

(Traditional, arranged and adapted by Loreena McKennitt) As I walked out one morning All in the month of May Down by a flowery garden I carelessly did stray I overheard a young maid In sorr

(Loreena McKennitt) The moonlight it was dancing On the waves, out on the sea The stars of heaven hovered In a shimmering galaxy A voice from down the ages So in haunting in its song These

(Traditional, arranged and adapted by Loreena McKennitt) A blacksmith courted me Nine months and better He fairly won my heart Wrote me a letter With his hammer in his hand He looked quite cl

O bonny Portmore, you shine where you stand And the more I think on you the more I think long If I had you now as I had once before All the lords in Old England would not purchase Portmore. O bonny Po

(Loreena McKennitt) I hear some distant drumbeat A heartbeat pulsing low Is it coming from within A heartbeat I don't know A troubled heart knows no peace A dark and poisoned pool Of li

(Loreena McKennitt) This glancing life is like a morning star A setting sun, or rolling waves at sea A gentle breeze or lightning in a storm A dancing dream of all eternity The sand was shim

(Traditional, arranged and adapted by Loreena McKennitt) I wish I was in Carrighfergus Only for nights in Ballygrant I would swim over the deepest ocean Only for nights in Ballygrant. But th

Beloved, gaze in thine own heart The holy tree is growing there; From joy the holy branches start And all the trembling flowers they bear. The changing colours of it's fruit Have dowered the stars wit

(Traditional, arranged and adapted by Loreena McKennitt) Come by the hills to the land Where fancy is free And stand where the peaks meet the sky And the rocks reach the sea Where the rivers r

(Loreena McKennitt) Wherein the deep night sky The stars lie in its embrace The courtyard still in its sleep And peace comes over your face. "Come to me," it sings "Hear the

(Traditional, arranged and adapted by Loreena McKennitt) Lully, lulla, thou little tiny child By by, lully, lullay, thou little tiny child By by, lully lullay O sisters too, how may we do Fo

(Words by William Shakespeare; Music by Loreena McKennitt) Fear no more the heat o' the sun Nor the furious winters' rages; Thou thy worldly task hast done, Home art gone, and ta'

(Loreena McKennitt) When the dark wood fell before me And all the paths were overgrown When the priests of pride say there is no other way I tilled the sorrows of stone I did not believe bec

(Loreena McKennitt) I walk the streets of Dublin It's 1842 It's snowing on this Christmas Eve Think I'll beg another bob or two I'll huddle in this doorway here Till someo

(Loreena McKennitt) Stars were falling deep in the darkness As prayers rose softly, petals at dawn And as I listened, your voice seemed so clear So calmly you were calling your god Somewhere

(Traditional, arranged and adapted by Loreena McKennitt) God rest ye merry, gentlemen, Let nothing you dismay Remember Christ our Saviour Was born on Christmas Day To save us all from Satan�

(John Mason Neale, arranged and adapted by Loreena McKennitt) Good King Wenceslas looked out On the Feast of Stephen When the snow lay 'round about Deep and crisp and even Brightly shone

(Words by King Henry VIII; Music traditional) Alas my love you do me wrong To cast me off discourteously; And I have loved you oh so long Delighting in your company. Greensleeves was my deli

(Traditional) All hail to the days that merit more praise Than all the rest of the year And welcome the nights that double delights As well for the poor as the peer! Good fortune attend each m

(Traditional, arranged and adapted by Loreena McKennitt) Here's a health to you bonny Kellswater Where you get all the pleasures of life Where you get all the fishing and fowling And a bon

Let all that are to mirth inclined Consider well and bear in mind What our good God for us has done In sending his beloved Son For to redeem our souls from thrall Christ is the saviour of us all. The

(Traditional) Let us the Infant greet In worship before Him fall And let us pay Him homage meet On this His festival. Let us to the Infant sing And bring Him of gifts rich store Let us hon

(Words by William Blake; Music by Loreena McKennitt) O for a voice like thunder, and a tongue To drown the throat of war! - When the senses Are shaken, and the soul is driven to madness Who can

(Loreena McKennitt) They're gathered in circles The lamps light their faces The crescent moon rocks in the sky The poets of drumming Keep heartbeats suspended The smoke swirls up and the

When the moon-cradle's rocking and rocking Where a cloud and a cloud go by Silently rocking and rocking The moon-cradle out in the sky. Then comes the lad with the hazel And the folding star's in the

(Loreena McKennitt) The road now leads onward As far as can be Winding lanes And hedgerows in threes By purple mountains And round every bend All roads lead to you There is no journey'

(Loreena McKennitt) Ride on through the night tide on Ride on through the night tide on There are visions, there are memories There are echoes of thundering hooves There are fires, there is

(Loreena McKennitt) Now that the time has come Soon gone is the day There upon some distant shore You'll hear me say Long as the day in the summer time Deep as the wine dark sea I

(Words by William Shakespeare; Music by Loreena McKennitt) And now my charms are all o'erthrown And what strength I have's mine own Which is most faint; now t'is true I must here

(Loreena McKennitt) When the moon on a cloud cast night Hung above the tree tops' height You sang me of some distant past That made my heart beat strong and fast Now I know I'm home

(Words traditional; Music by Loreena McKennitt) I sowed the seeds of love I sowed them in the spring I gathered them up in the morning so clear When the small birds so sweetly sing When the sm

(Traditional, arranged and adapted by Loreena McKennitt) My love said to me: "My mother won't mind And me father won't slight you For your lack of kind". Then she stepped a

(Loreena McKennitt) O light the candle, John The daylight has almost gone The birds have sung their last The bells call all to mass Sit here by my side For the night is very long There

O light the candle, John The daylight has almost gone The birds have sung their last The bells call all to mass Sit here by my side For the night is very long There's something I must tell Before I pa

(Music by Loreena McKennitt; Words by Archibald Lampman) White are the far-off plains, and white The fading forests grow; The wind dies out along the height, And denser still the snow, A gathe

(Words traditional, arranged by Loreena McKennitt; Music by Loreena McKennitt) In one of these lonely Orkney Isles There dwelled a maiden fair Her cheeks were red, her eyes were blue She had ye

In one of these lonely Orkney Isles There dwelled a maiden fair, Her cheeks were red, her eyes were blue She has yellow curling hair. Which caught the eye and then the heart Of one who could never be

(Words by W.B.Yeats; Music by Loreena McKennitt) Where dips the rocky highland Of Sleuth Wood in the lake There lies a leafy island Where flapping herons wake The drowsy water-rats There we've

(Words traditional, arranged and adapted by Loreena McKennitt; Music by Loreena McKennitt) A farmer there lived in the north country A hey ho bonny o And he had daughters one, two, three The sw

(Words by St. John of the Cross; arranged and adapted by Loreena McKennitt; Music by Loreena McKennitt) Upon a darkened night The flame of love was burning in my breast And by a lantern bright

(Music: Loreena McKennitt; Lyric: Sir Walter Scott (1771 - 1832)) It was an English ladye bright, (The sun shines fair on Carlisle wall,) And she would marry a Scottish knight, For Love will st

(Loreena McKennitt) See there, past that far-off hill A tower held in the sky Hear there, in that dark blue night The music calling us home See there, in that far-off field Flowers turned t

(Words by Alfred Noyes, abridged by Loreena McKennitt; Music by Loreena McKennitt) The wind was a torrent of darkness among the gusty trees The moon was a ghostly galleon tossed upon the cloudy se

(Traditional) Health, love and peace be all here in this place By your leave we shall sing, concerning our King Our King is well-dressed in silks of the best In ribbons so rare no king can co

(Words by Alfred Lord Tennyson; Music by Loreena McKennitt) On either side of the river lie Long fields of barley and of rye, That clothe the world and meet the sky; And thro' the field

(Loreena McKennitt) When in the springtime of the year When the trees are crowned with leaves When the ash and oak, and the birch and yew Are dressed in ribbons fair When owls call the breath

(Loreena McKennitt) A clouded dream on an earthly night Hangs upon the crescent moon A voiceless song in an ageless light Sings at the coming dawn Birds in flight are calling there Where the h

The thundering waves are calling me home to you The pounding sea is calling me home to you On a dark new year's night On the west coast of Clare I heard your voice singing Your eyes dance

(Traditional) Come all you lads and lasses, I'd have you give attention To these few lines I'm about to write here Tis of the four seasons of the year that I shall mention The beauty

(Words by William Butler Yeats; Music by Loreena McKennitt) Beloved, gaze in thine own heart The holy tree is growing there; From joy the holy branches start And all the trembling flowers they

(Traditional) Good people all, this Christmas-time Consider well and bear in mind What our good God for us has done In sending his beloved Son. With Mary holy we should pray To God with lov