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Beltane Night
05:29
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Moon rise and star fall
Fire burn and night wind call
Drum beat the wild song
That heart sings at summer’s dawn
Sown are the new fields
With bright seed of harvest’s yield
Far down the roots bind
The heart’s joy to summer’s time
Leave the fire and come with me
We’ll lie beneath the flowering tree
And feel the breathing of the earth
Rise and fall
The green time sings its song again
To wake the hill, to wake the glen
And raise in every living thing
An answering call
Leap o’er the May fire
Hold close your sweet desire
For life’s wheel will grant soon
The heart’s wish for summer’s bloom
Green shoot and pale flower
Garland the Beltane bower
Circle with joined hands
For heart shines with summer’s dance
Leave the fire and come with me
To walk beside the dreaming sea
And watch the fading of the stars
As the new day dawns
We’ll try to catch time in our hands
To hold the wave against the sand
And watch this glow upon the land
That soon will be gone
So drum beat and flute sound
Once more we’ll circle ‘round
For the world turns and the wheel spins
And all ends that once begins
This green hour, the heart knows,
Is brief as the budding rose
Though wheel turn and bloom fade
The heart sings the birth of May
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Spiral Dance
06:04
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Refrain: Spiralling through time
Interwoven lines of entropy
Beyond reason or rhyme
Myriad fine patterns come to be
Now we're weaving into form
Then out of form we flow
Magnetized towards a central point
Where all must go
Merry meet and merry part
And shall we meet again?
Spiralling in circle art
We spin this wild refrain
In your hand red silken threads
But in my hand they're blue
For a time they intertwine
Then the dance begins anew
Into time and out of time
In this reality
We are known, to be unknown,
We dance this mystery
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The Month of Maying
07:01
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Now is the month of maying, when merry lads are playing
Fa la la la la la la la la, fa la la la la la la
Each with his bonnie lass, a-dancing on the grass
Fa la la la la la la la la, fa la la la la la la
The Spring, clad all in gladness, doth laugh at Winter's sadness
Fa la la la la la la la la, fa la la la la la la
And to the bagpipe's sound, The nymphs tread out the ground
Fa la la la la la la la la, fa la la la la la la
Fie, then, why sit we musing, youth's sweet delight refusing?
Fa la la la la la la la la, fa la la la la la la
Say, dainty nymph, and speak, shall we play barley break?
Fa la la la la la la la la, fa la la la la la la
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The Green Man
05:38
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The Green Man came to me/ one morning in the spring
When the dew lay on the fields,/ and my heart was full of longing
His eyes were green and gold,/ like sunlight on the leaves
Oh, more beautiful than any,/ he seemed that morning to me
He planted love in me,/ as I lay against the grass
And the earth around me sang/ of the ripening of summer
My arms like branches grew/ and roots sprang from my feet
Oh, I was green with life’s own yearning,/ with the joy he grew in me
But that was long ago,/ when I was green and new
When the quickening of spring/ still rose in me like wonder
Many years have passed,/ and I know now autumn’s chill
Yet, I hear the green voice singing./ He grows within me still.
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Going Away Jig
04:03
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The Bear
06:56
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Summer Is A Comin' In
05:15
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Summer is a-comin’ in, loudy sing cuckoo
Groweth seed and bloweth mead and springs the wood anew
Sing Cuckoo!
Ewe is bleating after lamb,
Cow after calf lows too
Bullock starting, buck now browsing,
Merry sing Cuckoo!
Cuckoo, cuckoo, well sing thou cuckoo
O sing thou ever new!
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Speak To Me
08:46
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Speak to me, they speak to me
Of sky and wind, of sea and stone
Of moss and fern and cedar tree
Of cliffs where wild arbutus grow
Speak to me, they speak to me
Of orcas gliding through the deep
Of eagles balancing the wind
Above the waves where salmon leap
Chorus: Speak to me, they speak to me
The voices here, they speak to me
Of this place they speak to me
Speak to me, they speak to me
Speak to me, they speak to me
Of deer that browse the twilight fields
Of stony heron keeping watch
For what the silver sea might yield
Speak to me, they speak to me
Of bark canoe and beating drum
Of dancing feet that once obeyed
The rhythm of an ancient song
Speak to me, they speak to me
Of what has been and what endures
Of summer’s bloom and autumn’s fade
In the circling of the years
Speak to me, they speak to me
In voices humming in my bone
In whispers rising on my breath
In languages that tell of home
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The Dawn Chorus
05:40
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Stillness
06:16
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There comes a time when grass green
Turns to gold
And all is still before death
If we can turn our faces to this
A moment found, this still point in time
When life seems to fail and fall into slumber
We are waiting to return
What promise comes to us every spring!
Life surges through all forms to renew
And calls from the earth, all the glories of heaven
We so yearn for this time
No other passion stands before this
A fevered desire, an unfolding spire
Rushing forward blind and ever hopeful
Leading endlessly to gold and stillness
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Jaiya Mayne Island, British Columbia
Jaiya was founded in 2003 by Gulf Island musicians Miranda Brown, Kim Darwin and Lael Whitehead. The trio recorded three albums which celebrate a deep connection to the land and to the cycles of the seasons. Brown and Darwin have now retired from the band, and Lael Whitehead is continuing on her own - with the help of talented guest artists. ... more
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