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- From: jblain@ac.dal.ca
- Newsgroups: alt.pagan
- Subject: The Holly and the Ivy, and other Yule songs
- Message-ID: <1992Dec23.140710.9752@ac.dal.ca>
- Date: 23 Dec 92 14:07:10 -0400
- Organization: Dalhousie University, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada
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- Yule greetings --
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- A number of us were trying to sing at the solstice. We wanted to sing "The
- Holly and the Ivy" but found that nobody knew the words! I know six lines
- but after that i only know the Xtian version which was drilled into me
- in school (and which always seemed to be not quite right . . .)
-
- Help please! Can anyone forward me the words?
-
- I'd also be interested in "The Holly King" and "Lord of the Dance" --
- and anything else you see fit to send along!
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- Thanks in anticipation!
- Yule blessings --
-
- Jenny Jblain @ ac.dal.ca
- __________________________________________________________________________
- I was in many shapes before I was released:
- .....
- I was a path, I was an eagle, I was a coracle in seas;
- I was a bubble in beer, I was a drop in a shower;
- I was a sword in hand, I was a shield in battle.
- I was a string in a harp enchanted nine years, in the water as foam;
- I was a spark in fire, I was wood in a bonfire;
- I am not one who does not sing; I have sung since I was small.
-
- [from The Book of Taliesin]
-