The Great Selkie Of Sule Skerry chords by
June Tabor

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Key: Bb major•

Verse 1

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In nor'way land

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there lived a maid

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"Hush ba lu lilly" she did sing

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For little ken I my baby's father

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Nor yet the land that he

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dwells in

Verse 2

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It happened on a certain day

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As this fair maid lay fast

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asleep

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That day there came a grey

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selkie

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And sat him down at her bed feet

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Awake,

Verse 3

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awake, my pretty maid

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It's oh how soundly you do sleep

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For here am I your baby's father

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Sitting here at your bed feet

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I pray you tell

Verse 4

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to me your name

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And where your dwelling it may be?

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My name is Good Hale Mariner

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I earn my living out at sea

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I am a man

Verse 5

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upon the land

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I am a selkie in the sea

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And when I'm far and far from land

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My home it is in Sule Skerry

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Oh woe

Verse 6

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alas this weary fate

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This weary fate that's laid on me

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That a man should come

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from the west of Hoy

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And father his ain child on me

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My dear, I'll wed you

Verse 7

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with a ring

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With a ring my dear I'll wed with thee

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You may go to the wedding

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with whom you will

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I'm sure we'll never married be

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And she has nursed

Verse 8

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his little wee son

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For seven years all at her knee

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And when seven years

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were past and gone

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He's come with gold

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and white money

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And now my dear, will you

Verse 9

take the ring?

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Will you take the ring and wed with me?

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You may go to the wedding

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with whom you will

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Fsus4

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I'm sure you'll never marry me

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I'll put a gold chain

Verse 10

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round his neck

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And a gay gold chain I'm

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sure it will be

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And if e'er he comes to the

nor'way land

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He'll know for sure that it is he

Verse 11

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And you will marry a gunner good

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And a gay good gunner he will be

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And he'll go out on a May morning

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And he'll shoot your son and he'll shoot me

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Verse 12

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And the selkie took the little boy in

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his arm s

And they went away and

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over the hill. And in time

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she did marry a gunner

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Who went out on a May morning

and shot two seals

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A big bull male and a young male

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Fsus4

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with a gold chain

Fsus4

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Around his neck

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Oh woe, alas, this

Verse 13

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weary fate

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This weary fate that's laid on me

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And so she cried and so she sighed

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And her tender heart

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it broke in three

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