Title: All Souls' Night
Lyrics by: Loreena McKennett
Tune: original
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Recorded on: "The Visit," Loreena McKennett
Subject: Sabbats - Samhain

Bonfires dot the rolling hillsides, figures dance around and around 
To drums that pulse out echoes of darkness, moving to the pagan sound. 
Somewhere in a hidden memory images float before my eyes 
Of fragrant nights of straw and bonfires and dancing till the next sunrise. 

Chorus: I can see the lights in the distance 
Trembling in the dark cloak of night 
Candles and lanterns are dancing, dancing 
A waltz on all souls night. 

Figures of cornstalks bend in the shadows held up tall as the flames leap high 
The green knight holds the holly bush to mark where the old year passes by. 

(Chorus)

Bonfires dot the rolling hillsides, figures dance around and around 
To drums that pulse out echoes of darkness moving to the pagan sound. 
Standing on the bridge that crosses the river that goes out to the sea 
The wind is full of a thousand voices; they pass by the bridge and me. 

(Chorus)