(Bator/James) Chorus You got the passion of an empty mansion Don't feel no fire when the blood runs cold There ain't no hurtin' like two hearts uncertain Ya' ca...

from the NFB film GODDESS REMEMBERED Music by Loreena McKennitt LM: Vocals, Synthetic Textures GEORGE KOLLER: Cello Mixed by John Whynot at Metal Works, Toron...

Harking is bonny and there lives my love My heart lies on him and cannot remove It cannot remove for all that I have done And I never will forget my love Annach...

I come to hevin which to tellThe best nowells that e'er befell To you thir tythings trew I bring And I will of them say and sing This day to you is born ane ch...

As I walked out one morning All in the month of May Down by a flowery garden I carelessly did stray I overheard a young maid In sorrow did complain, All for her...

Music and lyric: Loreena McKennitt The moonlight it was dancing On the waves, out on the sea The stars of heaven hovered In a shimmering galaxy A voice from d...

LM: Harp, Keyboards BRIAN HUGHES: Guitar, Balalaika RICK LAZAR: Drums, Percussion GEORGE KOLLER: Bass HUGH MARSH: Fiddle

A blacksmith courted me Nine months and better He fairly won my heart Wrote me a letter With his hammer in his hand He looked quite clever And if I was with my ...

O bonny Portmore, you shine where you stand And the more I think on you the more I think long If I had you now as I had once before All the lords in Old England...

I hear some distant drumbeat A heartbeat pulsing low It is coming from within A heartbeat I don't know A troubled heart knows no peace A dark and poisoned pool ...

Music and lyric: Loreena McKennitt This glancing life is like a morning star A setting sun, or rolling waves at sea A gentle breeze or lightning in a storm A d...

I wish I was in Carrighfergus, Only for nights in Ballygrant I would swim over the deepest ocean, Only for nights in Ballygrant But the sea is wide, and I can'...

Lyrics by William Butler Yeats, arr by Loreena McKennitt Beloved, gaze in thine own heart, The holy tree is growing there; From joy the holy branches start, An...

I wish I was in Carrighfergus, Only for nights in Ballygrant I would swim over the deepest ocean, Only for nights in Ballygrant But the sea is wide, and I can'...

By William Butler Yeats Beloved, gaze in thine own heart, The holy tree is growing there; From joy the holy branches start, And all the trembling flowers they ...

Wherein the deep night sky The stars lie in its embrace The courtyard still in its sleep And peace comes over your face 'Come to me' it sings 'Hear the pulse o...

Lully, lulla, thou little tiny child By by, lully, lullay, thou little tiny child By by, lully lullay O sisters too, how may we do For to preserve this day Thi...

When the dark wood fell before me And all the paths were overgrown When the priests of pride say there is no other way I tilled the sorrows of stone I did not ...

By William Shakespeare (c 1609) Fear no more the heat o' th' sun Nor the furious winters rages; Thou thy wordly task hast done, Home art gone, and ta'en thy wa...

When the dark wood fell before me And all the paths were overgrown When the priests of pride say there is no other way I tilled the sorrows of stone I did not ...

I walk the streets of Dublin town It's 1842 It's snowing on this Christmas Eve Think I'll beg another bob or two I'll huddle in this doorway here Till someone c...

Veni, veni, Emmanuel Captivum solve Israel Qui gemit in exilio Privatus Dei Filio Gaude, Gaude Emmanuel Nascetur pro te, Israel Veni veni, O Oriens Solare nos...

Stars were falling deep in the darkness as prayers rose softly, petals at dawn And as I listened, your voice seemed so clear so calmly you were calling your god...

Sunday is gloomy My hours are slumberless Dearest the shadows I live with are numberless Little white flowers Will never awaken you Not where the black coach Of...

Wassail, wassail, all over the town Our toast it is white and our ale it is brown Our bowl it is made of the white maple tree With the wassailing bowl we'll dri...

God rest ye merry, gentlemen, Let nothing you dismay Remember Christ our Saviour Was born on Christmas Day To save us all from Satan's power When we were gone a...

Good King Wenceslas looked out On the Feast of Stephen When the snow lay 'round about Deep and crisp and even Brightly shone the moon that night Though the fros...

Alas my love you do me wrong To cast me off discourteously; And I have loved you oh so long Delighting in your company Greensleeves was my delight, Greensleeve...

Traditional English (eighteenth century) All hail to the days that merit more praise Than all the rest of the year, And welcome the nights that double delights...

I looked back and forth through the window of 15th century Spain, through the hues of Judaism, Islam and Christianity, and was drawn into a fascinating world: h...

Here's a health to you bonny Kellswater Where you get all the pleasures of life Where you get all the fishing and fowling And a bonny wee lass for your wife Oh...

Traditional English Let all that are to mirth inclined Consider well and bear in mind What our good God for us has done In sending his beloved Son For to rede...

Traditional English Let us the Infant greet, In worship before Him fall, And let us pay Him homage meet, On this His Festival Let us to the Infant sing, And b...

O for a voice like thunder, and a tongue To drown the throat of war! - When the senses Are shaken, and the soul is driven to madness, Who can stand? When the s...

They're gathered in circles the lamps light their faces The crescent moon rocks in the sky The poets of drumming keep heartbeats suspended The smoke swirls up a...

When the moon-cradle's rocking and rocking Where a cloud and a cloud go by Silently rocking and rocking The moon-cradle out in the sky Then comes the lad with t...

The road now leads onward As far as can be Winding lanes And hedgerows in threes By purple mountains Round every bend All roads lead to you There is no journey'...

Ride on Through the night Ride on Ride on Through the night Ride on There are visions, there are memories There are echoes of thundering hooves There are fires...

Music and lyric: Loreena McKennitt Now that the time has come Soon gone is the day There upon some distant shore You'll hear me say Long as the day in the sum...

And now my charms are all o'erthrown And what strength I have's mine own Which is most faint; now t'is true I must be here confined by you But release me from ...

Ride on Through the night Ride on Ride on Through the night Ride on There are visions, there are memories There are echoes of thundering hooves There are fires...

When the moon on a cloud cast night Hung above the tree tops height You sang me of some distant past That made my heart beat strong and fast Now I know I'm home...

January, 1992 - Just performed in Santiago de Compostella in the Galician area of Spainmisty and lush as we arrived from more arid areas of the country; clearly...

I sowed the seeds of love I sowed them in the spring I gathered them up in the morning so clear When the small birds so sweetly sing When the small birds so swe...

My love said to me My Mother won't mind And me Father won't slight you For your lack of kind Then she stepped away from me And this she did say It will not be l...

O light the candle, John The daylight has almost gone The birds have sung their last The bells call all to mass Sit here by my side For the night is very long ...

White are the far-off plains, and white The fading forests grow; the wind dies out along the height, And denser still the snow, A gathering weight on roof and t...

In one of these lonely Orkney Isles There dwelled a maiden fair Her cheeks were red, her eyes were blue She had yellow, curling hair Which caught the eye and t...

Where dips the rocky highland Of sleuth wood in the lake There lies a leafy island Where flapping herons wake The drowsy water rats There we've hid our fairy va...

LM: Harp, Keyboards, Vocals, Accordion BRIAN HUGHES: Guitar, Balalaika TOM HAZLETT: Bass RICK LAZAR: Udu Drums, Percussion HUGH MARSH: Fiddle This piece was or...

A farmer there lived in the north country a hey ho bonny o And he had daughters one, two, three The swans swim so bonny o These daughters they walked by the riv...

A farmer there lived in the north country a hey ho bonny o And he had daughters one, two, three The swans swim so bonny o These daughters they walked by the riv...

In the silence of the night When the snow lies soft and still You can see a magic light And hear the ring of Christmas bells Though the night seems long and dar...

Upon a darkened night the flame o love was burning in my breast And by a lantern bright I fled my house while all in quiet rest Shrouded by the night and by th...

Lyric: Sir Walter Scott (1771 – 1832) It was an English ladye bright, (The sun shines fair on Carlisle wall,) And she would marry a Scottish knight, For Love w...

Music and lyric by Loreena McKennitt See there, past that far-off hill A tower held in the sky Hear there, in that dark blue night The music calling us home S...

The wind was a torrent of darkness among the gusty trees The moon was a ghostly galleon tossed upon the cloudy seas The road was a ribbon of moonlight over the ...

Traditional English Health, love and peace be all here in this place By your leave we shall sing, concerning our King Our King is well-dressed in silks of the...

On either side of the river lie Long fields of barley and of rye, That clothe the world and meet the sky; And thro' the field the road run by To many-towered Ca...

By Alfred Lord Tennyson (1843) On either side the river lie Long fields of barley and of rye, That clothe the wold and meet the sky; And thro' the field the ro...

Dear thoughts are in my mind And my soul soars enchanted As I hear the sweet lark sing In the clear air of the day For a tender beaming smile To my hope has bee...

A clouded dream on an earthly night Hangs upon the crescent moon A voiceless song in an ageless light Sings at the coming dawn Birds in flight are calling there...

When in the springtime of the year When the trees are crowned with leaves When the ash and oak, and the birch and yew Are dressed in ribbons fair When owls cal...

The thundering waves are calling me home to you The pounding sea is calling me home to you On a dark new year's night On the west coast of Clare I heard your v...

Traditional English (nineteenth century) Come all you lads and lasses, I'd have you give attention To these few lines I'm about to write here 'Tis of the four ...

The first good joy that Mary had It was the joy of one The first rejoice that Mary had Was to see her new born son To see her new born son good man, And blesse...

Where dips the rocky highland Of Slueth Wood in the lake, There lies a leafy island Where flapping herons wake The drowsey water rats; There we've hif our faery...

Good people all, this Christmas-time, Consider well and bear in mind What our good God for us has done In sending his beloved Son With Mary holy we should pray ...

When the moon Comes up To shine her face The birds Are fast asleep When The lanterns hang From every post The fairies Leave their keep They join their hands And...

Traditional Irish Good people all, this Christmas-time, Consider well and bear in mind What our good God for us has done In sending his beloved Son With Mary h...