The Great Silkie by The Highwaymen (Folk)
The Great Silkie by The Highwaymen (Folk)

The Great Silkie

The Highwaymen (Folk) * Track #11 On Standing Room Only!

The Great Silkie Lyrics

[Verse 1]
An earthly nourris sits and sings
And aye she sings, "My lilly wean
Little ken I thy bairn's father
Far less the land in where he be"

[Verse 2]
"I am a man upon the land
I am a silkie in the sea
And when I'm far and far frae land
My home it is in Sule Skerry"

[Verse 3]
"It is my will", quote the maiden fair
"It is my will indeed", quote she
"That the great silkie of Sule Skerry
Should come and ought a bairn on me"

[Verse 4]
"It shall come to pass on a summer's day
When the sunshine's hot on every stone
That I shall take my little young son
And teach him for to swim the foam

[Verse 5]
And you shall marry a proud gunner
And a proud gunner I'm sure he'll be
And the very first shot that e'er he shoot
He'll kill both my young son and me"

[Refrain]
An earthly nourris sits and sings
And aye she sings, "My lilly wean
Little ken I thy bairn’s father
Far less the land in where he be"

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