Joan Baez Silkie HD

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Joan Baez sings the traditional song 'Silkie' from her 1961 Vanguard album 'Joan Baez, Vol. 2'. This traditional song from the Orkney Islands of Scotland is Child Ballad #113. The song lyrics are in the video and listed below, • The following synopsis of the song is from Wikipedia: A woman, nursing a baby, laments that she does not know the child's father or where he lives. A man rises up to tell her that he is the father, and that he is a silkie — a changeling that takes the form of a man on the land and a seal in the sea, and that he lives on a remote rocky island called Sule Skerry. He gives her a purse full of gold, takes his son, and predicts that she will marry a gunner (the man who fires the harpoon on a whaling ship) who will shoot both him and their son. • [Vinyl/Lyrics/40-Images] • • Silkie • Singer - Joan Baez • An earthly nurse sits and sings • And aye she sings, Ba lilly wean • And little ken I my bairn's father • Far less the land where he dwells in • For he came one night to her bed foot • And a grumly guest I'm sure was he • Saying, Here am I, thy bairn's father • Although I be not comely • I am a man upon the land • I am a silkie on the sea • And when I'm far and far from land • My home it is in Sule Skerrie • And he has ta'en a purse of gold • And he had placed it upon her knee • Saying, Give to me my little young son • And take thee up thy nurse's fee • And it shall come to pass on a summer's day • When the sun shines bright on every stane • I'll come and fetch my little young son • And teach him how to swim the faem • And ye shall marry a gunner good • And a right fine gunner I'm sure he'll be • And the very first shot that e're he shoots • Will kill both my young son and me • Traditional Song (from Orkney Islands)

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