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FAUN FABLES ~ LIVE IN NORWAY

by FAUN FABLES

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    FAUN FABLES ~ LIVE IN NORWAY

    Recorded at Lysvold Gård in Leirfjord, Norway on August 19, 2022
    ~w/ special guest Arild Hammerø~
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BEGIN 03:56
Here at last I finally begin, not without excitement I feel this won't be easy, but I like the twilit world The traveller is vulnerable and charmed, a distinct aloneness A sense of doom visits me, but I like the twilit world I am innocent as I press further into darkness Just at the edge of the picnic, the crumb that got away
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By the storm torn shoreline A woman is standing, The spray strung like jewels in her hair. And the sea tore the rocks Near that desolate landing, As though it had known she stood there. For she has come down To condemn that wild ocean For the murderous loss of her man. His boat sailed out on Wednesday morning, And it's feared she's gone down With all hands. Oh and white were the wave caps And wild was their parting. So fierce is the warring of love. But she prayed to the gods, Both of men and of sailors, Not to cast their cruel nets O'er her love. Now she has come down To condemn that wild ocean For the murderous loss of her man. His boat sailed out on Wednesday morning, And it's feared she's gone down With all hands. There's a school on the hill Where the sons of dead fathers Are led toward tempests and gales. Where their God-given wings Are clipped close to their bodies, And their eyes are bound round With ship's sails. And she has come down To condemn that wild ocean For the murderous loss of her man. His boat sailed out on Wednesday morning, And it's feared she's gone down With all hands. What force leads a man To a life filled with danger High on seas or a mile underground? It's when need is his master And poverty's no stranger, And there's no other work to be found. But she has come down To condemn that wild ocean For the murderous loss of her man. His boat sailed out on Wednesday morning, And it's feared she's gone down With all hands. by Andy M. Stewart
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YDUN 08:13
Creekside, a figure dressed in white Face in shadow, gown alight Standing tall, stilling time Across the water, the wind sings rhymes for you Ydun, mountain child Whisper your story to me, sing it in rhyme Mountain maid, mountain wife Green, soft patches through the clay Sunlit paints gems upon the day Sloping meadows, hidden flowers to find Look to the shadows on the other side, Ydun Ydun, mountain child Whisper your story to me, sing it in rhyme Mountain maid, mountain wife Ydun, born on a mountain side Follow a pathway none can find A turquoise lake holding the sky A laugh, a shout, somewhere in time, Ydun Ydun, mountain child Whisper your story to me, sing it in rhyme Told through the ages, a valley at a time Mountain maid, you mountain wife No mortal hand will take the mountain child
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SUGAR CAMP 02:52
Let us go to the sugar camp, while the snow lies on the ground Live in a birch-bark wigwam, all the children and the older folk While the people are at work Cut a notch in the maple tree, set a pail on the ground below Soon the sap will be flowing, from the tree it will be flowing All the people are at work Make a fire in the sugar lodge, so that we may boil the sap Bring all the wooden ladles, set the wooden trough for graining All the people are at work In the snow see the rabbit tracks, hear the note of the chickadee We must not stop to follow them, 'tis the season of the sugar camp All the people are at work Bring the sap from the maple trees, pour the sap in the iron pot See how it steams and bubbles, may we have a little taste of it? All the people are at work Pour the syrup in the graining trough, stir it slowly as it thicker grows Now it has changed to sugar, we may eat it in a birch-bark dish There is sugar for us all !
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WIDDERSHINS 05:30
We walk the witch's garden, my Gudrin and me We walk the witch's garden in the shadow of the trees The animals are here and their green eyes shine Unweaving the strands of time, unweaving the strands of time Counterclockwise, counterclockwise, widdershins it begins, turn back time We circle the hawthorne to unwind the morning, we circle the henbane to unwind the day Avian voices sing a mantle of green, can the world be as glad as it seems? Can the world be as glad as it seems? Counterclockwise, counterclockwise, widdershins, it begins, turn back time.. Time before and time beside the bright past, first and everlast I have always been here in this garden Time to come, a time to greet the dark star, rising ever far I will always be here in this garden We walk under starlight to a chorus of frogs, who halt as a branch breaks, but wakes not the dogs In the black oak here, the winter resides Back where the earliest voice still abides, back where a sleeping newborn will arrive . Counterclockwise, counterclockwise, widdershins, it begins, turn back time... Time before and time beside the bright past, first and everlast I have always been here in this garden Time to come, a time to greet the dark star, rising ever far I will always be here in this garden
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HIAWATHA 08:38
By the shores of Gitchee Gumee, by the shining big-sea waters Stood the wigwam of Nakomis, daughter-of-the-moon Nakomis Dark behind rose the forest, rose the dark and gloomy pine trees Bright in front beat the water, beat the clear and shining water Here the wrinkled, old Nakomis cared for little Hiawatha Rocked him in his linden cradle, bedded soft with moss and rushes And she hushed the baby's crying, lulled him into slumber singing Who is this that lights the wigwam? Ewa-yea, my little owlet. O Hiawatha ! Many things Nakomis taught him, of the stars that shine in heaven Showed him Ishkoodah the comet, Ishkoodah with fiery tresses Showed the broad, white road in heaven, pathway of the ghosts & shadows Running straight across the heavens, crowded w/ the ghosts and shadows At the door on summer evenings sat the little Hiawatha Minne-wah-wah said the pine trees, mudway-aushka said the water Saw the firefly wah-wah-taysee, sang the songs Nakomis taught him Wah-wah-taysee little firefly, little dancing white-fire creature O Hiawatha ! Saw a rainbow in the heavens, in the eastern sky the rainbow Whispered "What is that Nakomis?" and the good Nakomis answered "All the wild-flowers of the forest, all the lilies of the prairie When on earth they fade and parish, blossom in that heaven up above." From the beasts he learned their language, learned their names and all their secrets Spoke with them whene'er he met them, called them "Hiawatha's Brothers" O Hiawatha !

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Between continents and kids and crossing an ocean, we have been collaborating with the astounding Norwegian musician Arild Hammerø since 2016. Summer 2022, we took a break from a rigorous tour of France and parked ourselves near the Arctic Circle in Leirfjord with Arild & his family ..and worked up this show in the legendary family barn.

FAUN FABLES ~ LIVE IN NORWAY includes a selection of the songs performed .

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released October 7, 2022

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Troubadours of animist, otherworldly folk rock and story since 1998, FAUN FABLES are known for exquisite, visceral adventures in song and live performance. Dawn McCarthy's voice opens hearts and minds from a whisper to a rallying battle cry into her mythical world, animated by the adventurous musicality and vocals of partner Nils Frykdahl (Sleepytime Gorilla Museum, Free Salamander Exhibit). ... more

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