Changeling Child

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The wind blows low and mournful
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Through the Strath of Dalnacreich
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Where once there lived a woman
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Who would a mother be
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For twelve long years a good man's wife
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but ne'er the cradle filled
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A mother of a changeling child from 'neath the fairy hill

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[Verse 2]
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She traveled to the standing stones
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And crossed into the green
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Where all the host of elven folk
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were dancing there unseen
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Through the night she bargained
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with the Queen of fairies all
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who sent her home at dawning with a babe beneath her shawl

[Verse 3]
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How their home was joyful
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with a son to call their own
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But soon they saw the years that passed
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would never make him grow
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The fairies would not answer her
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The stones were dark and slept
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A babe was all she asked for, and their promises they'd kept

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[Verse 4]
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The wind blows low and mournful
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Through the Strath of Dalnacreich
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Where once there lived a woman
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Who would a mother be
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For fifty years she rocked that babe
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it's said she rocks him still
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A mother of a changeling child from 'neath the fairy hill.