About twenty years ago I wrote this song and have just written a tune to go with it.It is based on a true story

THE STORM WITCH

Through summer months and Winter storm
A young girl weeps with love forlorn
Her lover shanghaid one misty night
waiting through days of dark and light
listening to the barking of the caves
the changing beating of the waves
remembering nights on Aukney sand
walking lovingly hand in hand

Through seas whipped up by an Autumn gale
A ship is seen with a broken sail
The Villagers leap and dance about
"With salvage we'll be rich" they shout
The ship begins to search in vain
for safety through that rocky main
"I see a Mermaid" someone cries
as a girl is seen through tear stained eyes

The Sailors all cringe back in fear
as that lovely girl draws near
In vain she searches that dreadful place all for to see her lovers face
Through the storm that savage day
she guids the ship to Odins Bay
and men with faces wracked with pain
now begin to laugh again

The Villagers seeing their safe return
cry out"This Storm Witch She must burn
only a Witch in a magic boat
in that storm could have stayed afloat".
In Strongsay Prison behind locked door
with mice and rats upon the floor,
that poor young girl lies full awake
to wait her fate upon the stake

Suddenly through prison bars
a face is seen amongst the stars
Her lovers face she sees again
and shuts her eyes to ease the pain
A wall falls down,she hears a shout
A hand comes in to pull her out
The Men she saved from that stormy sea
and her lover back to set her free.

Alan Day