The Stolen Child (Vocal Demo)

Come away human child to the water

Come away human child to the water and the wild

With a faery, hand in hand

For the world's more full of weeping than you can understand

Where dips the rocky highland

Of Sleuth Wood in the lake

There lies the leafy island

Where flapping herons wake the drowsy water rats

There we've hid our faery vats full of berries

And of reddest stolen cherries

Come away, human child to the water

Come away, human child to the water and the wild

With a faery, hand in hand

For the world's more full of weeping than you can understand

Where the wave of moonlight glosses

The dim gray sands with light

Far off by furthest roses, we foot it all the night

Weaving olden dances, mingling hands and mingling glances

Till the moon has taken flight

To and fro we leap, chase the frothy bubbles

While the world is full of troubles and is anxious in it's sleep

Come away, human child to the water

Come away, human child to the water and the wild

With a faery, hand in hand

For the world's more full of weeping than you can understand

Where the wandering water gushes from the hills above Glen-Car

And pools among the rushes that scarce could bathe a star

We seek for slumbering trout and whispering in their ears

We give them unquiet dreams

Leaning softly out from ferns that drop their tears

Over the young streams

Away with us he's going, the solemn eyed

He'll hear no more the lowing of the calves on the warm hillside

Or the kettle on the hob, sing peace into his breast

Or see the brown mice bob around and around the oatmeal chest

For he comes, the human child to the water

He comes, the human child to the water and the wild

With a faery, hand in hand

From a world more full of weeping than you can understand

Human child, human child

With a faery, hand in hand

From a world more full of weeping than you can understand

Than you can understand, you can understand