Parallel Dreams

Loreena McKennitt Parallel Dreams Album - 1989 Track List 1.  Samain Night 2.  Moon Cradle 3.  Huron ’Beltane’ Fire Dance 4.  Annachie Gordon 5.  Standing Stones 6.  Dickens’ Dublin (The Palace) 7.  Breaking The Silence 8.  Ancient Pines =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- # 1 - Samain Night Capo 2 [Intro]                             [Verse] When the moon___ on a cloudless night        Shone above___ the treetops’ height        You sang me of some distant past That made my heart beat strong and fast Now I know I’m home at last                     [Verse] You offered me__ an eagle’s wing        That to the sun__ I might soar and sing        And if I heard the owl’s cry Into the forest I would fly And in its darkness  find you by [Instrumental]                                    [Verse] So our love’s   not a simple thing        Nor our truths unwavering        Like the moon’s pull on the tide Our fingers touch our hearts collide I’ll be a moon’s-breath from your side      I’ll be a moon’s-breath from your side      I’ll be a moon’s-breath from your side [Outro]                        =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- # 2 - Moon Cradle [Intro]           [Verse] When the moon cradle’s rocking and rocking Where a cloud and a cloud go by Silently rocking and rocking The moon cradle’s out in the sky [Verse] Then comes the lad with the hazel And the folding star’s in the rack "Night’s a good herd" to the cattle he sings "She brings all things back" [Verse] But the bondwoman down by the boorie Sings with a heart grown wild How a hundred rivers are flowing Between herself and her child [Verse] "The geese even they trudge homeward That have their wings and the waste Let your thoughts be on Night the Herder And be quiet for a space" [Verse] When the moon cradle’s rocking and rocking Where a cloud and a cloud go by Silently rocking and rocking The moon cradle’s out in the sky [Verse] The snipe they are crying crying Liadine liadine liadine Where no track’s on the bog they are flying A lonely dream will be mine Where no track’s on the bog they are flying A lonely dream will be mine [Outro]                 =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- # 3 - Huron ’Beltane’ Fire Dance           (Instrumental - no lyrics) =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- # 4 - Annachie Gordon Capo 2 [Intro]                             [Verse] Harking is bonny and there lives my love My love lies on him and cannot remove It cannot remove for all that I have done And I never will forget my love Annachie [Verse] For Annachie Gordon he’s bonny and he’s bright                                         He’ entice any woman that ’er ’er he saw He’d entice any woman and so he has done me And I never will forget my love Annachie [Verse] Down came her father he’s standing at the door Saying "Jeannie you are trying the tricks of a whore You care nothing for a man who cares so very much for thee You must marry Lord Sultan and leave Annachie" [Verse] For Annachie Gordon he’s barely but a man Although he may be pretty but where are his lands? For the Sultan’s lands are broad and his towers they run high You must marry Lord Sultan and leave Annachie" [Verse] "With Annachie Gordon I beg for my bread Before I marry Sultan his gold to my head With gold to my head and straight down to my knee And I’ll die if I don’t get my love Annachie   [Verse] And you who are my parents to church you may me bring But unto Lord Sultan I’ll never bear a son To a son or a daughter I’ll never bow my knee And I’ll die if I don’t get my love Annachie"   [Verse] Jeannie was married and from church was brought home When she and her maidens so merry should have been When she and her maidens so merry should have been She goes into her chamber and cries all alone   [Verse] "Come to my bed my Jeannie my honey and my sweet To stile you my mistress it would be so sweet" "Be it mistress or Jeannie it’s all the same to me But in your bed Lord Sultan I never will lie" [Verse] Then down came her father he’s spoken with renown Saying "You who are her maidens go loosen up her gowns" And she fell down to the floor and straight down to her knee Saying "Father look I’m dying for my love Annachie" [Instrumental]                             [Verse] The day that she was married was the day that Jeannie died And the day that young Annachie came home on the tide And down came her maidens all wringing of their hands Saying "Oh it’s been so long you’ve been so long on the sands So long on the sands so long upon the floods They have married your Jeannie and now she lies dead" [Verse] "You who are her maidens come take me by the hand And lead me to the chamber where my love she lies in" And he kissed her cold lips ’til his heart it turned to stone And he died in the chamber that his love she lies in [Outro]                             =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- # 5 - Standing Stones Capo 4 [Intro]                                           [Verse] In one of these lonely Orkney Isles there dwelled a maiden fair Her cheeks were red her eyes were blue she had yellow curling hair Which caught the eye and then the heart of one who could never be                              /      lover of so true maid or fair form as she [Verse] Across the lake in Sandwick dwelled a youth she held most true And ever since her infancy he had watched these eyes so blue The land runs out into the sea it’s a narrow neck of land Where weird and grim the Standing Stones in a circle where they stand [Instrumental]               [Verse] One bonny moonlight Christmas Eve they met at that sad place With her heart in glee the beams of love were shining on her face When her lover came and he grasped her hand what loving words they said They talked of future’s happy days as through the stones they strayed [Verse] They walked toward the lovers’ stone and through it passed their hands They plighted there a constant troth sealed by love’s steadfast bands He kissed his maid and then he watched her that lonely bridge go o’er For little little did he think he wouldn’t see his darling more [Chorus] Standing Stones of the Orkney Isles Gazing out to sea Standing Stones of the Orkney Isles Bring my love to me [Instrumental]               [Verse] He turned his face toward his home that home he did never see And you shall have the story as it was told to me When a form upon him sprang with a dagger gleaming bright It pierced his heart and his dying screams disturbed the silent night [Instrumental]                                    [Verse] The maid had nearly reached her home when she was startled by a cry She turned to look around her and her love was standing by His hand was pointing to the stars his eyes gazed at the light And with a smiling countenance he vanished from her sight [Verse] She quickly turned and home she ran not a word of this was said For well she knew at seeing his form that her faithful love was dead And from that day she pined away not a smile seen on her face With outstretched arms she went to meet him in a brighter place [Chorus] Standing Stones of the Orkney Isles Gazing out to sea Standing Stones of the Orkney Isles Bring my love to me [Chorus] Standing Stones of the Orkney Isles Gazing out to sea Standing Stones of the Orkney Isles Bring my love to me [Outro]                                   =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- # 6 - Dickens’ Dublin (The Palace) [Intro]               [Verse] (Spoken by a street urchin) Joyful mystery the birth of our Lord. This night our Lady and St. Joseph was going up to get registered and and they were going down the road and they met this man and and he said "Have you any room?" And he said "No but there’s an old stable over there that I owned if yous want to go into it." And they went over and the lord came down from the heaven at twelve o’clock and loads of beautiful angels was with them and when they were walkin’... [Verse] I walk the streets of Dublin town It’s eighteen forty-two It’s snowing on this Christmas Eve Think I’ll beg another bob or two I’ll huddle in this doorway here ’Til someone comes along If the lamp lighter comes real soon Maybe I’ll go home with him Maybe I can find a place I can call my home    Maybe I can find a home I can call my own [Verse] (Spoken by a street urchin) These three wise kings and and they were all in different countries. And they always used to look up at the sky and they looked up this night and saw this beautiful star up in the sky. And when they were going they all meeted together and whe.. you have.. they had to pass King Herod’s place not that we much care for him. And they went in and and he said "And where yous goin’ with yer best stitches on ye?" [Verse] The horses on the cobbled stones go by Think I’ll get one one fine day And ride into the countryside And very far away But now as the daylight disappears I best find a place to sleep Think I’ll slip into the bell-tower In the church just down the street Maybe I can find a place I can call my home    Maybe I can find a home I can call my own [Verse] (Spoken by a street urchin) And they said "Did you not hear the news?" and say he says "What news?"  He says "This day the saviour is born." And he says to them "When you find him come back and tell me ’cause I want to go and adore him too." And he was only coddin’ them. He wanted to kill him and when they were going they stopped and they said "Surely not this old stable that our king is born in. We were expecting a palace."   [Verse] Maybe on the way I’ll find the dog I saw the other night And tuck him underneath my jacket so We’ll stay warm through the night And as we lie in the bell-tower high And dream of days to come The bells o’er head will call the hours Some day we will find a home Maybe I can find a place I can call my home    Maybe I can find a home I can call my own    Maybe I can find a place I can call my home    Maybe I can find a home I can call my own    [Verse] (Spoken by a street urchin) There was these shepherds and shepherds are fellas that mind the foals and cows and sheeps and little lambs and all and um they hears this beautiful music up in da sky and they were wondering what was so fun. An angel N.C. disappated them and he said "I was wonderin’ what was so fun" and he said N.C. ye and he said "The saviour is born. If yous want to go see him follow N.C. that star up in the sky" and it was a beautiful star. =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- # 7 - Breaking The Silence Capo 3 [Intro]        /                                                /       /       /     /   [Verse] I hear some distant drumbeat       A heartbeat pulsing low        Is it coming from within        A heartbeat I don’t know?       [Verse] A troubled soul knows no peace        A dark and poisoned pool       Of liberty now lost        A pawn an oppressor’s tool        [Chorus] Oh my heart be strong______ A guide when eyes grow dim        When ears grow deaf with empty words   When I know there’s life within        [Verse] A gunfire shatters silence        Where birds once sweetly sang        A mother cradles a child now dead      Now death where life began        [Verse] From the troubled heart of South Africa        Nicaragua’s festering sore        The turmoil on the streets of China        Death crying out for more       [Chorus] Oh my heart be strong______ A guide when eyes grow dim        When ears grow deaf with empty words   When I know there’s life within        [Verse] A change is slow in coming        My eyes can scarcely see        The rays of hope come streaming       Through the smoke of apathy        [Chorus] Oh my heart be strong______ A guide when eyes grow dim        When ears grow deaf with empty words   When I know there’s life within        [Verse] May the spirit never die        A troubled heart feels pain        When the long winter is over        It will blossom once again [Outro]   /       /       /       /       /       /       /       /     =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- # 8 - Ancient Pines           (Instrumental) =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-