Stolen Child

Stolen Child Lyrics

Song Stolen Child
Artist Loreena McKennitt
Album Nights from the Alhambra
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[00:24.75] music by Loreena McKennitt
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[00:34.75] Where dips the rocky highland
[00:37.99] Of sleuth wood in the lake
[00:41.30] There lies a leafy island
[00:44.80] Where flapping herons wake
[00:48.19] The drowsy water rats
[00:51.25] There we've hid our fairy vats
[00:55.21] Full of berries
[00:58.21] And of reddest stolen cherries.
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[01:02.71] Come away oh human child
[01:06.43] To the waters and the wild
[01:09.82] With a fairy hand in hand
[01:13.22] For the world's more full of weeping
[01:16.92] Than you can understand
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[01:22.00] Where the wave of moonlight glosses
[01:25.50] The dim grey sands with light
[01:28.92] By far off furthest rosses
[01:32.48] We foot it all the night
[01:35.94] Weaving olden dances
[01:39.16] Mingling hands and mingling glances
[01:42.53] Till the moon has taken flight
[01:46.12] To and fro we leap
[01:49.47] And chase the frothy bubbles
[01:52.56] While the world is full of troubles
[01:56.02] And is anxious in its sleep.
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[02:01.46] Come away oh human child
[02:04.70] To the waters and the wild
[02:08.09] With a fairy hand in hand
[02:11.51] For the world's more full of weeping
[02:15.14] Than you can understand
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[02:33.28] Where the wandering water gushes
[02:36.81] From the hills above glen car
[02:40.14] In pools among the rushes
[02:43.68] That scarce could bathe a star
[02:47.13] We seek for slumbering trout
[02:50.33] And whispering in their ears
[02:54.09] Give them unquiet dreams
[02:57.26] Leaning softly out
[03:00.31] From ferns that drop their tears
[03:04.15] Over the young streams
[03:07.42] Come away oh human child
[03:11.01] To the waters and the wild
[03:14.36] With a fairy hand in hand
[03:17.64] For the world's more full of weeping
[03:21.24] Than you can understand
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[03:40.39] Away with us he's going
[03:43.92] The solemn-eyed
[03:47.19] He'll hear no more the lowing
[03:50.47] Of the calves on the warm hillside
[03:53.92] Or the kettle on the hob
[03:57.16] Sing peace into his breast
[04:00.84] Or see the brown mice bob
[04:04.04] Round and round the oatmeal chest.
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[04:07.41] For he comes, the human child
[04:10.70] To the waters and the wild
[04:14.30] With a fairy hand in hand
[04:17.39] For the world's more full of weeping
[04:21.26] Than you can understand
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