Great Selchie Of Shule Skerry
Judy Collins
Judy Collins - Great Selchie Of Shule Skerry CAPO: 5th Fret [Intro] [Verse 1] In Norway there sits a maid For you my baby she begins Little know I my child’s father Or if land or sea he’s livin’ in [Verse 2] Then there arose at her bed-feet And a grumbly guest I’m sure it was he Saying here am I thy child’s father Although that I am not comely [Verse 3] I am a man upon the land I am a selchie in the sea And when I am in my own country My dwellin’ is in Shule Skerry [Verse 4] And he hath taken a purse of gold He hath put it upon her knee Saying give to me my little wee son And take thee up thy nurse’s fee [Verse 5] And it shall come to pass on a summer day When the sun shines hot on every stone That I shall take my little wee son And I’ll teach him for to swim in the foam [Verse 6] And you will marry a gunner good And a proud good gunner I’m sure he’ll be And he’ll go out on a May morning And he will kill both my wee son and me [Verse 7] And lo she did marry a gunner good And a proud good gunner I’m sure it was he And the very first shot that ere he did shoot He killed the son and the great selchie [Verse 8] In Norway there sits a maid For you my baby she begins Little know I my child’s father Or if land or sea he’s livin’ in