Penelope's Song Loreena McKennitt

Music and lyric: 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'll keep

The Mystic`s Dream (From The Movie `The Mists Of Avalon`) 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 heart moves the stones

The Mystic's Dream 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 heart moves the stones

Mystic's Dream 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 heart moves the stones It's

The Dark Night Of The Soul (어두운 밤의 영혼) Loreena McKennitt

guide Of night more loving than the rising sun Oh night that joined the lover To the beloved one Transforming each of them into the other I lost myself to him And laid my face upon my lover\'s

Courtyard lullaby Loreena McKennitt

the wind draws strong Across the cypress trees The Nightbirds cease their songs So gathers memories Last night you spoke of a dream Where forests strechted to the east And each bird sang its song

Come by the hills Loreena McKennitt

Come by the hills on the land where life is a song And sing while the birds fill the air with their joy all day long. Where the trees sway in time, and even the wind sings in tune.

The old ways Loreena McKennitt

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

In praise of Christmas Loreena McKennitt

Old grudges forgot are put in the pot, All sorrows aside they lay; The old and the young doth carol this song, To drive the cold winter away.

Mummers' Dance Loreena Mckennitt

When owls call the breathless moon in the blue veil of the night When shadows of the trees appear amidst the lantern('s) light.

The two trees Loreena McKennitt

with merry light; The surety of its hidden root Has planted quiet in the night; The shaking of its leafy head Has given the waves their melody, And made my lips and music wed, Murmuring a wizard song

The seasons Loreena McKennitt

When night comes on with song and tale we pass the wintry hours; By keeping up a cheerful heart we hope for better days.

The Lady of Shalott Loreena McKennitt

Four grey walls, and four grey towers, Overlook a space of flowers, And the silent isle imbowers The Lady of Shalott Only reapers, reaping early, In among the beared barley Hear a song that echoes

The dark night of the soul Loreena McKennitt

The dark night of the soul Upon a darkened night the flame of love was burning in my breast And by a lantern bright I fled my house while all in quiet rest Shrouded by the night and by the secret...

Seeds of love Loreena McKennitt

Seeds of love 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 small birds so sweetly sing The gardene...

Greensleeves Loreena McKennitt

Greensleeves 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 delight, Greensleeves my heart of gold Gre...

Snow Loreena McKennitt

Snow 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 gathering weight on roof and tree, Falls down scarce audibly....

Dark Night Of The Soul Loreena Mckennitt

to moonn6pence from shootingstar(papayeverte) The Dark Night Of The Soul /Loreena Mckennitt Upon a darkened night the flame of love was burning in my breast And by a lantern bright I fled my house

The Mummers' Dance 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 breathless moon In the blue veil ...

Marrakesh night market Loreena McKennitt

Marrakesh night market 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 then dies ...

The bonny swans Loreena McKennitt

The bonny swans A farmer there lived in the north country a hey ho bonny o And he had daughters one, two, three The swans swim so bonny o These daughters they walked by the river's brim a hey ho b...

Night ride across the Caucasus Loreena McKennitt

Night ride across the Caucasus Chorus: Ride on - Through the night - Ride on Ride on - Through the night - Ride on There are visions, there are memories There are echoes of thundering hooves Ther...

Stolen child Loreena McKennitt

Stolen child 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 hid our fairy vats Full of berries And ...

She moved through the fair Loreena McKennitt

She moved through the fair 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 away from me And this she did say It will not be long, love...

Lullaby Loreena McKennitt

Lullaby 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 stand? When the souls of the oppressed Fight i...

Bonny Portmore Loreena McKennitt

Bonny Portmore O Bonny Portmore I am sorry to see Such a woeful destruction of your ornament tree For it stood on your shore for many's the long day Till the long boats from Antrim came to float i...

The Highwayman Loreena McKennitt

The Highwayman Part I The wind was a torrent of darkness among the gusty trees, The moon was a ghostly galleon tossed upon cloudy seas. The road was a ribbon of moonlight over the purple moor, And...

Blacksmith Loreena McKennitt

Blacksmith 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 clever And if I was with my love I'd live forever. ...

The king Loreena McKennitt

The king Good health, love and peace be all here in this place By your leave we will sing, concerning our King. Our King is well-dressed in silks of the best In ribbons so rare no king can compar...

Cymbeline Loreena McKennitt

Cymbeline Fear no more the heat o' th' sun Nor the furious winters' rages; Thou thy worldly task hast done, Home art gone, and ta'en thy wages. Golden lads and girls all must, As chimney-sweep...

Skellig Loreena McKennitt

Skellig 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...

Coventry carol Loreena McKennitt

Coventry carol 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 For to preserve this day This poor youngling For ...

God rest ye merry, gentlemen Loreena McKennitt

God rest ye merry, gentlemen God rest ye merry, gentlemen, Let nothing you dismay Remember Christ our Saviour Was born on Christmas Day To save us all from Satan's power When we were gone astray. ...

Good King Wenceslas Loreena McKennitt

Good King Wenceslas Good King Wenceslas looked out On the Feast of Stephen When the snow lay 'round about Deep and crisp and even Brightly shone the moon that night Though the frost was cruel When...

Banks of Claudy Loreena McKennitt

Banks of Claudy 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 sorrow did complain, All for her absent lover Who ...

Annachie Gordon Loreena McKennitt

Annachie Gordon 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 love Annachie For Annachie Gord...

Balulalow Loreena McKennitt

Balulalow I come to 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 Marie meik and Vi...

Prospero's Speech 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 be released by you But release me from my bands With the help of your good han...

Kellswater Loreena McKennitt

Kellswater 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 bonny wee lass for your wife. Oh it's down where yon wat...

Carrighfergus Loreena McKennitt

Carrighfergus I wish I was in Carrighfergus, Only for nights in Bellygrant. I would swim over the deepest oceans, Only for nights in Bellygrant. But the sea is wide, and I can't get over. Neither...

Full circle Loreena McKennitt

Full circle 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 the sun rose...

Standing stones Loreena McKennitt

Standing stones In one of these lonely Orkney Isles There dwelled a maiden fair. Her cheeks were red, her eyes were blue She had yellow curling hair. Which caught the eye and then the heart Of one...

Breaking the silence Loreena McKennitt

Breaking the silence 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 liberty now...

Down By the Sally Gardens Loreena McKennitt

It was down by the Sally gardens My love and I did meet She crossed the Sally gardens With little snow-white feet She bid me to take life easy As the leaves grow on the tree But I was young and fo...

All souls night Loreena McKennitt

All souls night Bonfire dot the rolling hillsides 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 b...

Saiman night Loreena McKennitt

Saiman night 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 at last You offered ...

The Wexford carol Loreena McKennitt

The Wexford carol 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 love ...

Let us the Infant greet Loreena McKennitt

Let us the Infant greet 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...

Let all that are to mirth inclined Loreena McKennitt

Let all that are to mirth inclined 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 Chorus: For to redeem our souls f...

Moon cradle Loreena McKennitt

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