Avalon Rising - THE GREAT SELKIE lyrics

In Norway there dwelt a maid "By'loo my baby," she begins Saying "Little know I my baby's father Or if land or see he's living in." Then there arose at her bed's foot A grumley ghaist, I'm sure was he Saying "Here am I, thy baby's father Although that I'm not comely." "I am a man upon the land And I am a selkie in the sea And when I am in my own country My dwelling is Shule Skerry." Then he's taken out a purse of gold And he has put it upon her knee Saying "Give to me my little wee son And take thee up thy nurse's fee." And it shall come to pa** on a summer's day When the sun shines bright on every stone That I shall take out my little wee son And teach him for to swim in the foam." "And you shall marry a gunner good And a proud young gunner I'm sure he'll be And he'll go out on a fine May morning And k** both my young son and me." And lo, she did marry a gunner good And a fine young gunner I'm sure was he And ther very first shot that he did shoot It k**ed both the son and the Great Selkie In Norway there dwelt a maid "By'loo my baby," she begins Saying "Little know I my baby's father Or if land or sea he's living in."