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Music and Lyrics: Loreena McKennitt |
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O light the candle, John |
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The daylight has almost gone |
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The birds have sung their last |
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The bells call all to mass |
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Sit here by my side |
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For the night is very long |
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There's something I must tell |
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Before I pass along |
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I joined the brotherhood |
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My books were all to me |
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I scribed the words of God |
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And much of history |
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Many a year was I |
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Perched out upon the sea |
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The waves would wash my tears, |
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The wind, my memory |
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I'd hear the ocean breathe |
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Exhale upon the shore |
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I knew the tempest's blood |
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Its wrath I would endure |
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And so the years went by |
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Within my rocky cell |
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With only a mouse or bird |
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My friend; I loved them well |
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And so it came to pass |
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I'd come here to Romani |
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And many a year it took |
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Till I arrived here with thee |
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On dusty roads I walked |
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And over mountains high |
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Through rivers running deep |
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Beneath the endless sky |
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Beneath these jasmine flowers |
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Amidst these cypress trees |
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I give you now my books |
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And all their mysteries |
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Now take the hourglass |
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And turn it on its head |
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For when the sands are still |
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'Tis then you'll find me dead |
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O light the candle, John |
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The daylight is almost gone |
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The birds have sung their last |
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The bells call all to mass |
