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Selkie Of Skaill Bay

from Facing The Falling Sky by Kathie Touin

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An Orkney legend about the Selkie folk - seals taking human form - but told from the point of view of the Selkie woman herself.

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SELKIE OF SKAILL BAY

Come home with me, you said
I'll set you free, you said
bide here with me, you said
and stole my life away

Ten years or more have passed
since that night on the shore
The moonlight made spotlights of
water and sand

I'd never felt so free
my friends there around me
and stealing a kiss and a laugh
was my man

The future was golden
adrift on the ocean
and weightless and timeless
I swam with the tides
but I didn't know you were
waiting and watching
Hiding beyond the rocks
biding your time

Come home with me, you said
I'll set you free, you said
bide here with me, you said
and stole my life away

With words and with kisses
you lured me away
By the time that I realised
it was already too late

You stole from me my escape
and made me a wife
We had beautiful children
a completely new life

But ever I dreamed of
my man of the sea
hoping that someday
he'd come rescue me
And you never noticed
the salt in my tears
The cries on the wind
you never did hear

But tonight I am leaving
while you're out on the lash
for I've found my escape
I've found my way back

Give the babies a kiss
for they'll be sorely missed
but if you search for me
among the blue waves
know that I'll never forgive you
for the rest of my days

You robbed me of my youth
and a life of my own
stole from me my man
and I'll never know

if we could have been happy
a-sail on the sea
if you had not stolen the skin
of a selkie


© 2019 Kathie Touin All rights reserved

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from Facing The Falling Sky, released November 2, 2019
Kathie Touin: piano, keyboards, vocals

Special thanks to Róisín Coyle for kind permission to use her seal recordings

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Kathie Touin Scotland, UK

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Singer/songwriter from California, now living in Scotland's Orkney Islands. Kathie writes, arranges, produces and records her music from her own Starling Recording Studio.

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