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Thread #53309   Message #820952
Posted By: GUEST,Q
07-Nov-02 - 02:46 PM
Thread Name: Tune Req: The Great Silkie
Subject: RE: Tune Req: The Great Silkie
There is a little gem of a recitation composed by Gordon Bok that fits into the Silkie legends, called "Peter Kagan and the Wind." Copyright Gordon Bok, 1977. "North Wind's Clearing" cd (and also "Peter Kagan and the Wind"), Folk-Legacy. The text is on this website:
Kagan and the Wind
Kagan, a dory fisherman, is married to a seal. When a storm catches Kagan, she comes and saves him from freezing to death in the open dory.
Jim Branigan recorded this on "The Singing Bard." Also Makem, who also gives the text on his website, Liam Clancy and others..