Song, Chant, Poetry, Stories and Satire for the Pagan Community

This entry made: 03/13/2000

Title: The Beltane
Lyrics by: traditional (from Roy Palmer's "English Country Songs")
Tune: Eileen McGann
Date: 1997
Source:
Recorded on: "Heritage," Eileen McGann (Greentrax), 1997.
Subject: Sabbats - Beltane

[Eileen says: "This is a wonderful tale of the ancient Celtic spring
rite, from the point of view of a couple of non-participants."]

I danced with a girl with a hole in her stocking
Her heel kept a-rocking (2x)
(Repeat first line)
By the light of the moon-o, at night by the light of the moon

We'd a mind to take to the wood but she dang it were accursed
She dang it were awaken...

We dangled on a stone but it lifted and it thwacked
It lifted and it moaned...

She ran me 'hind the clearing and we watched the folk a-dance
Her mother was a-prancing...

Their heads were clad as beasties and we cried her father there
Her brother was a-rutting...

She'd a soul as white as Mary and no sinner had been there
She clung to me to wed her...

'Fore light with dark had striven, I had ta'en her for my wife
I took her soul for life...

God's blessings on the moon;
God send blessings on the moon.