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Thread #112949 Message #2397757
Posted By: Bee
25-Jul-08 - 01:35 PM
Thread Name: Song Challenge - Wiccan Woes
Subject: RE: Song Challenge - Wiccan Woes
Freda and Wwwilliam, those are great!
My contribution:
The bishop and the witch
A bonny young witch to the cemetery gaes To work her charms among the graves Sae lang she staid and waited lang For the moon to rise to the spells she sang
The moon at last deigned to appear But the starry sky refused to clear Thae billow'd clouds hid the witches light She must carry on in the darkest night
Beneath the hallowed Christian gound An ancient Bishop, he lay bound An' at his side, Saint Pat's bacuill The same had pierced that old Laoghaire
An' as the witch began her chants The Bishop's bones began to dance So sweet and lively was her song The bones were moved to dance along
The Bishop's spirit, long asleep Awoke to find his bones a-leap An angry prelate he was then An' so did work to be her bane
Above the earth the witch unsheathed Her shining sword, the airs to cleave So as she swung it broad and high The Bishop's ghost did hover nigh
An' whether the Bishop's sharp bacuill Or a chancy slip of her own true will All in the dark when the sword came down her own dear blood did speckle her gown
"OW! Ow!!" she cried at this painful deed While her pretty little foot did quickly bleed An' seeing now the Bishop's ghost Knew that her good night's work was lost
"A curse on thee, thou Bishop cruel An' on Saint Patrick's old bacuill I did no harm to your mouldy bones They danced on their own to my dulcet tones!"
(Apologies for the thoroughly fake antiquing of the language - and the somewhat forced rhyming here and there. ;-))