a Freudian Celtic song, follwed by a beautiful Tsamikos dance from Samos.  Aetos means "eagle"

What Will You Bring to Me/Aetos

Carry me down to the slipping stream
But don't let me slip away
The water is cold as a winter's day
It swirls around me & numbs my brain
It's like swimming in a dream

Seems like the sunshine and the silver twig
They're taking me away, I don't want to leave
The blue sky and the golden bough
Telling me I'm never gonna have to 
Grieve

When the sun is on the brink of the world
And you feel like you're going over the edge
And the whole sky feels like a waterfall following the sun
And you feel like you're going over the edge
Then something wants to take you and put you in its hand
Then something wants to take you and put you in its hand

Carry me down to the pine forest
I just can't make it on my own
The woods are so heavy, they're like a silent stone
I feel I might be sinking down, please don't let me die alone

Feels like the sunshine & the silver twig
They're taking me away, I don't want to go
The blue sky and the golden bough
Telling me the secret I'm afraid to know

Blue Sky & Golden Bough N

transcribed after a nap in a car.  Fiddle by the extraordinary Elise Bouer

Long Lost Forgotten Waltz 2008

a beautiful rendering of my arrangement by Elektra Women's Choir

She Moved Through The Fair Elektra

210817 Burr In The Bonnet - Rabbit Run

Dream On Sweet Fools Contraband

All My Trials is a traditional song from the US.  Songtree is Barbara Jackson and Earle Peach

All My Trials performed by Songtree

this song is by Sylvia Tyson; our version is based on Judy Roderick.  Very sweet and moving

You Were On My Mind

Is This My Life 10 9

A new mix...tell me how you like it, what's missing?

We all walked to the foot of the cliff
Stood in its shade in morning light
The sea was wrinkled and clouds were swift
The air was cool, the sun was bright

I said to Jane are you happy now?
She said you never can be sure
The matchstick boy knelt down by a pool
& glowered up at me with a look so pure

Then a cloud took me away
Don’t know how it happened but the next I saw
They were small down on the bay
I was floating high above them all

Watched them suddenly start to move
Crowd around someone lying there
I couldn’t tell exactly who it was
From where I floated I didn’t care

I kept on rising into the sun
Silent voices in my ears
Some of them calm saying don’t be afraid
Some of them sudden and quick with fear

A cloud took me away
Like a gentle hand on my brow
Into the brilliance of the day
It was all familiar somehow

A cloud took me away
To a shining temple in the air
Into the brilliance of the day
To a quiet place somewhere


Cloud 15 4

Carpenter Ant 29 9

It's Getting Late 3

Mandolions

Bright Star

I love you with the desperate love of a heart trapped in a cell
That knows this door, these walls, this prison is not real
That knows beyond the clouds there stands an ever brilliant star
You are that star, my light, my life beyond the wheel

Bright Star, guide me to my berth
I’m sailing out far from the shores I know
I seek a new & distant earth
But I will not go
Before I can hear you speak my name

For many years I swore I would not rise above the ground
To learn to walk upon the earth would be my goal
I  opened doors & closed them, came & went as time allowed
While all the time there shone a hidden star within my soul

Bright Star…

Things fall away, we lose the sense that time means anything
It’s just an endless circle walk in some prison yard
I found myself alone with nothing left to sing
It’s then I heard the subtle voice of that distant star

Bright Star…

Bright Star

Jigsaw

I See The Changes

I Don't Want No Strangers

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