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« Reply #5 on: July 30, 2009, 10:30:51 am »

beautiful songs either way - the change in music is spectacular - almost sounds like she is singing a diffrent language!

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« Reply #4 on: July 30, 2009, 10:27:38 am »

yep correct gryffen,  if you tap in on google for the lyric words of Dante's Prayer, and the mummers dance the words are exact............
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« Reply #3 on: July 30, 2009, 08:04:53 am »

Believe it or not Eugene - same song!

I thought it was diffrent, but its the same one just a diffrent musical arrangment.

She foooled us lol
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« Reply #2 on: July 30, 2009, 04:06:36 am »

Oh I love that song.

Just seeing it I can hear it play in my head and it lifts me.

Although I would like to get some clarity about what she is singing about. The lyrics a poeticly beautiful but not from my neck of the woods so I was hoping someone could ad to the magic by telling me what she is saying.
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« Reply #1 on: July 30, 2009, 03:03:39 am »

i love loreena mckennitt!

Did you notice that the Wiccan dance and Mummers dance are similar?

Here is one of my favorites

Dante's Prayer

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 because I could not see
Though you came to me in the night
When the dawn seemed forever lost
You showed me your love in the light of the stars

Cast your eyes on the ocean
Cast your soul to the sea
When the dark night seems endless
Please remember me

Then the mountain rose before me
By the deep well of desire
From the fountain of forgiveness
Beyond the ice and the fire

Cast your eyes on the ocean
Cast your soul to the sea
When the dark night seems endless
Please remember me

Though we share this humble path, alone
How fragile is the heart
Oh give these clay feet wings to fly
To touch the face of the stars

Breathe life into this feeble heart
Lift this mortal veil of fear
Take these crumbled hopes, etched with tears
We'll rise above these earthly cares

Cast your eyes on the ocean
Cast your soul to the sea
When the dark night seems endless
Please remember me...
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« on: July 30, 2009, 02:49:07 am »

Song title: The Mummer's Dance

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 breathless moon
In the blue veil of the night
The shadows of the trees appear
Amidst the lantern light

We've been rambling all the night
And some time of this day
Now returning back again
We bring a garland gay

Who will go down to those shady groves
And summon the shadows there
And tie a ribbon on those sheltering arms
In the springtime of the year

The songs of birds seem to fill the wood
That when the fiddler plays
All their voices can be heard
Long past their woodland days

And so they linked their hands and danced
Round in circles and in rows
And so the journey of the night descends
When all the shades are gone

"A garland gay we bring you here
And at your door we stand
It is a sprout well budded out
The work of Our Lord's hand"
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