Neofolk Romantique
by Sharon Knight
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Digital Album
Immediate download of 10-track album in your choice of high-quality MP3, FLAC, or just about any other format you could possibly desire.
An intimate all-acoustic collection of original and Celtic traditional songs showcasing Sharon's signature "Neofolk Romantique" sound. Accompanied by octave mandolin, acoustic guitars, kantele, occasional keys and percussion.
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Saucy Sailor
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Henry Martin
06:56
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Whisper Your Name
04:51
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Johnny Laddie
04:25
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Song of Wandering Aengus
02:19
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Bells of Alluria
04:43
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Mistress of MacLyr
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The Captain's Flask
02:33
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Queen of Shadows
03:29
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released 15 June 2011
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- Track Name: Saucy Sailor
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Saucy Sailor
Come me own one, come me fair one
Come now unto me
Could you fancy a poor sailor lad
Who has just come from sea
You are ragged love, and you’re dirty love
And your clothes smell much of tar
So be gone you saucy sailor lad
So be gone you Jack Tar
Well if I'm ragged love, and I’m dirty love
And my clothes smell much of tar
I have silver in me pocket love
And gold in great store
And when she heard him say so
On her bended knee she fell
I will marry my dear Henry
For I love a sailor lad so well
Do you think that I am foolish love?
Do you think that I am mad?
For to wed with a poor country girl
Where no fortune’s to be had
I will cross the briny ocean
I will whistle and sing
And since you have refused the offer love
Some other girl shall wear the ring
Oh I am frolicsome and I am easy
Good tempered and free
And I don’t give a single pin me boys
What the world thinks of me. - Track Name: Henry Martin
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Henry Martin
There were three brothers in merry Scotland,
In merry Scotland there were three
And they did cast lots which of them should go
Should go, should go,
For to turn robber all on the salt sea
The lot it fell first upon Henry Martin
The youngest of all of the three
That he should turn robber all on the salt sea
The salt sea, the salt sea
For to maintain his two brothers and he
They had not been sailing but a long winter's night
And part of a short winter's day
When he spied a stout lofty ship
Lofty ship
Come a-bibing down on him straightway
"Hello, hello," cried Henry Martin
"What makes you sail so nigh?"
"We're a rich merchant ship bound for fair London Town,
Would you please for to let us pass by."
"Oh no, oh no," cried Henry Martin,
"This thing it never can be.
For I have turned robber all on the salt sea
Salt sea, the salt sea
For to maintain my two brothers and me"
"So lower your topsail and brail up your mizzen
Bow your ship under my lee
Or I will give to you a full cannon ball
Cannon ball, cannon ball
And your dear bodies drown in the salt sea"
"Oh no, we won't lower our lofty topsail
Nor bow our ship under your lee
And you'll not give to us a full cannon ball
Cannon ball, cannon ball
No, nor point our bold guns to the sea"
So broadside and broadside and at it they went
For fully two hours or three,
Until Henry Martin gave to them the death shot
Death shot, the death shot
And straight to the bottom went she.
Sad news, sad news to old England came
Sad news to fair London town
There's a rich merchant vessel and she's cast away
Cast away, cast away
And all of her merry men drowned - Track Name: Whisper Your Name
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We built our castles by the sea
Made of dreams and mermaid secrets
You the brave knight, I your queen
No hidden treasure ever came between
As we grew older a hero's quest
Became the thing that you love best
Before you left to far off ands
You places a crimson jewel in to my hands
Though the journey is long and the road is winding
I'll hold you in my heart like a flame
By the light of this jewel you'll find me and
Oh, I will whisper your name
You went your way before I told
The secrets of my heart unfolding
And I won't rest until you know
How deep the well of my love does go
I followed where your trail led
With a gypsy's vision in my head
No promises did she give
But while your ruby glows I know you live
Though the journey is long and the road is winding
I'll hold you in my heart like a flame
By the light of this jewel I'll find you and
Oh, I will whisper your name
I wished upon an ocean breeze
Carry news of my love to me
Show the road that he does ride
Carry my love to his side
Though the journey is long and the road is winding
I'll hold you in my heart like a flame
By the light of this jewel I'll find you and
Oh, I will whisper your name - Track Name: Johnny Laddie
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Oh how ken ye my love Johnny
He is down on yonder lee
And he's looking and he's joking and he's aye a-teasing me
He's pulling and he's teasing but his meaning's not so bad
If it's ever going to be, oh tell me now my Johnny lad
When the sheep are it he fold and the cae are in the byre
There's other lads and lasses sitting 'round a roaring fire
But for me a glaskit lassie
Just like as I was mad
Through the nooks and barley stalks
A-jenking you my Johnny lad
Oh my Johnny's blithe and bonny
He's the pride of all the Lee
And I loved him best of any
Though he's aye a-teasing me
He teases me and squeezes me and tickles me like mad
None comes near me that can cheer me like my own Johnny lad - Track Name: Song of Wandering Aengus
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I went down to the hazelwood
Because a fire was in my head
I cut and peeled a hazel wand
And hooked a berry to a thread
And when white moths were on the wing
And moth white stars were flickering out
I dropped the berry in the stream
And caught a little silver trout
And when I laid it on the ground
And went to blow the fire aflame
Something rustled on the ground
And someone called me by my name
It had become a glimmering girl
With apple blossoms in her hair
She called me by my name and ran
And vanished in the brightening air
And though I'm old with wandering
Through hollow lands and hilly lands
I will find out where she has gone
Ad kiss her lips and take her hands
I'll walk through long green dappled grass
I'll walk till time and time is done
The silver apples of the moon
The golden apples of the sun - Track Name: Bells of Alluria
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Bells of Alluria
(Sharon Knight/Winter)
Stay my love, don’t you go out tonight
Stay my love, for the fair ones ride tonight
Oh, the moon is ripe and shining full
At the witching hour their bells will toll
Tonight
Stay my love, for She of the Sylvan lands
Captures hearts with a touch of her hand
The red rose twines up from the hells
Her scent beguiles and you lose yourself
Her tresses shine with an infernal light
She’ll ensnare your soul
And you will not be mine
Shake your silver branches
Set the bells to sing
Revel in the dances
Of the new-made Faery King
Where do you go, my fairest love
Why do you leave, with the witching moon above
I’m going out beyond the silver trees,
For you’ve stirred my soul with mystery
The branches twist like a beckoning
The scent of apples lures me in
He’s gone out in the deep of the night
He’s gone out, to glimpse the Faery light
At the edge of the wood where the air is thin
They’ve set their eerie bells to ring
They’ll feed him on the Faery wine
She will speak his name
and he will not be mine
Shake your silver branches
Set the bells to sing
Revel in the dances
Of the new-made Faery King
I’m going out where the branches turn to grey
I’m going out where the beauty does not fade
For once I had a lover true
His heart was lost at the sight of you
I’ll find him where the night sun shines
We’ll spend forever drunk on Faery wine
Shake your silver branches
Set the bells to sing
Revel in the dances
Of the new-made Faery King - Track Name: Mistress of MacLyr
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Tempestuous twilight, bring my love to me
Whose froth-white horses come sweeping in from sea
And carry my heart away from me
Melancholy eyes, deep with dreams of starfish
Eerie moonglow hair, soothing sand into surrender
And operas of Seraphim singing of your splendor
Oh the roiling churning sea
He will come for me
I will wait by my crystal palace and
He will come for me
Your salty kiss is on my tongue and tangled in my hair
With shells between my toes, and yearning for more
I dance the dance of wild night and conjure you to shore
Your beauty pierces through me, Master of the Sea
Courtship fierce and stormy, you made your claim on me
Your foamy tendrils gripped my hair, and ravished me away
Oh the roiling churning sea
He will come for me
I will wait by my crystal palace and
He will come for me
Carry me away to your jeweled and dewey deep
Never will a mortal's kiss stir my soul from sleep
I am ravished utterly away
Oh I am ravished utterly away
Oh the roiling churning sea
He will come for me
I will wait by my crystal palace and
He will come for me - Track Name: Queen of Shadows
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Deep are the pools beyond the reach of time
Stark branches etch their sigils in the sky
Quiet is the snow that embraces the land
Brittle are the roses that crumble in your hand
Patent leather heels of the mistress who presides
Oh, the violent ecstasy that’s promised in her eyes
All your dark desires will flourish at her touch
And if she speaks your name you have promised her too much
Your soul stripped like petals from a rose
Gardens of desire and pomegranate wine
Silently she watches the passing of your time
And when the serpent sheds her skin and frees you from this life
The ferry man will carry you across the sea of lights
Hers are the kisses that give knowledge and delight
Hers the poison apple from which we all shall bite
The thorns of the rose cut deep, blood lies on the snow
An when the bells are tolling you’ll know it’s time to go
Bansidhe at the well gonna call your name
She is the chooser of the slain
Night has swallowed up the day - Track Name: My Johnny Was A Shoemaker
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My Johnny Was A Shoemaker
My Johnny was a shoemaker
And dearly he loved me
My Johnny was a shoemaker
And dearly he loved me
For to raise the topsail up against the mast
And to sail across the sea, stormy sea
And sail across the stormy sea
His jacket was a deep sky blue
Oh and curly was his hair
His jacket was a deep sky blue
Oh it was I do declare
With soot and tar to soil his hands
And to sail across the sea, stormy sea
And sail across the stormy sea
One day he'll be a captain bold
With a brave and gallant crew
One day he'll be a captain bold
With a sword and spyglass too
Ad when he as his gallant captain's sword
He'll come home and marry me, marry me
He'll come home and marry me
