Biography:
Loreena Isabel Irene McKennitt, CM OM (born February 17, 1957 in Morden, Manitoba, Canada) is a Canadian musician, composer, harpist, accordionist, and pianist who writes, records and performs world music with Celtic and Middle Eastern themes. She is self-managed, self-produced and head of her own record label - Quinlan Road. In a recording career spanning three decades, McKennitt's “eclectic Celtic” music has won critical acclaim worldwide and gold, platinum and multi-platinum sales awards in fifteen countries across four continents.
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Other songs:
- La Serenissima
- All Souls Night
- Annachie Gordon
- As I Roved Out
- Banks Of Claudy
- Beneath A Phrygian Sky
- Bonny Portmore
- Caravanserai
- Carrickfergus
- Come By The Hills
- Courtyard Lullaby
- Coventry Carol
- Cymbeline
- Dantes Prayer
- Dickens Dublin
- Down By The Sally Gardens
- Emmanuel
- Full Circle
- Greensleeves
- In Praise Of Christmas
- Kellswater
- Let Us The Infant Greet
- Marrakesh Night Market
- Moon Cradle
- My Heart Is Refusing Me
- Never
- Noel Nouvelet
- On A Bright May Morning
- Penelopes Song
- Prosperos Speech
- Raglan Road
- Samain Night
- Seeds Of Love
- Skellig
- Snow
- Standing Stones
- Stolen Child
- Tango To Evora
- The Bonny Swans
- The Dark Night Of The Soul
- The Death Of Queen Jane
- The English Ladye And The Knight
- The Highwayman
- The King
- The Lady Of Shalott
- The Mummers Dance
- The Mystics Dream
- The Old Ways
- The Seasons
- The Seven Rejoices Of Mary
- The Star Of The County Down
- The Two Trees
- Wassailing Song
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[Intro]
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Queen Jane lay in labour full nine days or more
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'Til her women grew so tired, they could no longer there
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They could no longer there___
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"Good women, good women, good women as ye be
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Will you open my right side__ and find my baby?
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And find my baby"
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"Oh no," cried the women, "That's a thing that never can be
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We will send for King Henry and hear what he may say
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And hear what he may say"
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King Henry was sent for, King Henry did come
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Saying, "What do ail you, my lady? Your eyes, they look so dim
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Your eyes, they look so dim"
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"King Henry, King Henry, will you do one thing for me?
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That's to open my right side and find my baby
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And find my baby"
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"Oh no," cried King Henry, "That's a thing I'll never do
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If I lose the flower of England, I shall lose the branch too
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I shall lose the branch too"
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Dm G C G C C/D C/E F C G7 C F C
[Verse]
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There was fiddling, aye, and dancing, on the day the babe was born
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But poor Queen Jane beloved, lay cold as the stone
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Lay cold as the stone
C F C F
[Verse]
C F C F C F C
Queen Jane lay in labour full nine days or more
Dm G C G7 C C/D C/E F
'Til her women grew so tired, they could no longer there
C G7 C F C F
They could no longer there___
[Verse]
C F C F C F C
"Good women, good women, good women as ye be
Dm G C G7 C C/D C/E F
Will you open my right side__ and find my baby?
C G7 C F C F
And find my baby"
[Verse]
C F C F C F C
"Oh no," cried the women, "That's a thing that never can be
Dm G C G7 C C/D C/E F
We will send for King Henry and hear what he may say
C G7 C F C F
And hear what he may say"
[Verse]
C F C F C F C
King Henry was sent for, King Henry did come
Dm G C G7 C C/D C/E F
Saying, "What do ail you, my lady? Your eyes, they look so dim
C G7 C F C F
Your eyes, they look so dim"
[Verse]
C F C F C F C
"King Henry, King Henry, will you do one thing for me?
Dm G C G7 C C/D C/E F
That's to open my right side and find my baby
C G7 C F C F
And find my baby"
[Verse]
C F C F C F C
"Oh no," cried King Henry, "That's a thing I'll never do
Dm G C G7 C C/D C/E F
If I lose the flower of England, I shall lose the branch too
C G7 C F C
I shall lose the branch too"
[Instrumental]
F C F C F C F C
Dm G C G C C/D C/E F C G7 C F C
[Verse]
F C F C F C F C
There was fiddling, aye, and dancing, on the day the babe was born
Dm G C G7 C C/D C/E F
But poor Queen Jane beloved, lay cold as the stone
C G7 C F C F
Lay cold as the stone
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