Stolen Child

Intro: Em  C   Em   C
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Where dips the rocky highland Of Sleuth Wood in the lake
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There lies a leafy island where flapping herons wake
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The drowsy water-rats There we've hid our faery vats
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Full of berries And of reddest stolen cherries

[Chorus:]
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          Come away, O human child to the waters and the wild
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          With a faery, hand in hand for the world's more full of weeping
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          Than you/he can understand.

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Where the wave of moonlight glosses the dim grey sands with light
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By far off furthest rosses we foot it all the night
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Weaving olden dances mingling hands and mingling glances
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Till the moon has taken flight To and fro we leap
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And chase the frothy bubbles whilst the world is full of troubles
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And is anxious in its sleep.


[Chorus] - [Guitar Solo]


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Where the wandering water gushes from the hills above Glen-Car
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In pools among the rushes that scarce could bathe a star
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We seek for slumbering trout and whispering in their ears
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Give them unquiet dreams leaning softly out
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From ferns that drop their tears over the young streams


[Chorus]


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Away with us he's going the solemn-eyed
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He'll hear no more the lowing of the calves on the warm hillside
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Or the kettle on the hob sing peace into his breast
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Or see the brown mice bob round and round the oatmeal chest.

[Chorus]

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For he comes, the human child to the waters and the wild
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With a faery hand in hand for the world's more full of weeping
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Than you can understand.