Hi
yep I can let you have the lyrics since I wrote the song! If you need the tune let me know and I can send you it - I can also send you the background info to the song if you want it hope you enjoy singing it
Sue

THE WITCH OF WHITBY
(Sue Haithwaite)

Old Mad Maggie the witch of Whitby
lives under the steps of the church by the sea
And the people were afraid
every woman every man
And when people children saw her away they ran

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and the wind did blow
and the sea did grow
and the fishermen and sailors
Ne'er more saw their homes
On the day she died

April 21st is the vigil of St Mark
And Old Mad Maggie sat through the dark
In the porch of a church
Next year's dead for to meet
And to torment the living
She met in the street

Fishermen and sailors went to see Maggie
To purchase knotted string
For to take out to sea
Just untie a knot you'll have winds in a trice
Well that's what will happen
If you pay the right price

Well Maggie knew the signs
Spiders' webs on lobster pots
And then she sold the farmers
Weather fine and hot
And if you don't believe
And you think that she's a fraud
Better get you a witch stone to hang by your door

Maggie made a curse for those who don't believe
On the die that I die
You will lose those at sea
For a the wind it will blow
and a storm it will grow
And fishermen and sailors no more will see their homes

One spring morn, Lobster pots covered with webs
Some children found old Maggie
Lying cold and dead
And all went still and flat was the sea
But by tea time the worst storm ever hit Whitby

© Sue Haithwaite 2000