Lyrics Cuan Alainn - Stolen Child

Cuann Alainn - Stolen Child
Music - Loreena McKennitt

There among the green forests
In the swampy wilderness
Where besides sleepy herons
You won't meet a soul
There on our island
Is there in a secret hiding place
Two baskets
Stolen red raspberries ...

So go, child of people,
To the land of lakes and reeds
Follow the beautiful fairy.
For there is so much sorrow in the world
That there is no other road ...

Where under the moonlight
The surf is worried
Along the shoals and dunes
Where the shore is blue
We're spinning dancing
To the music of the night
Airy crowd
Under the witch's moon
We float in the ether
At the hour when the worries of the world
Poison human sleep ...

So go, child of people,
To the land of lakes and reeds
Follow the beautiful fairy.
For there is so much sorrow in the world
That there is no other road ...

Where from the top of the mountain
The water runs ringing
And in the lake backwater
The star bathes
We are the slumbering trout
In your ear, barely
Whispering dreams
We weave vines with a tent,
And the light from the elder
Shakes off tears.

So go, child of people,
To the land of lakes and reeds
Let the fairies hug you.
For there is more sorrow in the world,
How can you realize ...

And he leaves with us
Happy and dumb
With transparent eyes
Taking in the shine of the night
Do not hear calves moo
He's more on the hills
And the puffs of the bowler hat,
What they put on the fire
And mice around the bag
With gray-brown flour.

This is how a child of people goes
To the land of lakes and reeds
Follow the beautiful fairy.
For there is so much sorrow in the world
That there is no other road ...

This is how a child of people goes
To the land of lakes and reeds
Follow the beautiful fairy.
For there is so much sorrow in the world
That there is no other road ...