Child Of The Waves

by Follow The Moon

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Child of the waves (Ceri Ashton)

Chrous:
Child of the waves, don’t you hear your father calling
Child of the waves, don’t you hear your mother’s song
Child of the waves, won’t you come back to your parents
You have lived beneath the ocean too long

You play chasing dolphins between wrecks and ruins
And dance to the song of the whale
No mother to tuck you in bed at night
Your lullaby is the hiss of the shale

Your home is a palace of wrecked ships and drowned cities
With barnacle-clad walls and floors
Eels and shimmering shoals drift in and out of
The wide open windows and doors

Chorus

For toys you have hoarded things lost in the ocean
Starfish, white bones and bright shells
The crown of the king of the drowned lowland hundred
Sailors’ love-letters and drowned churches’ bells

Your hair you have braided with sea-kelp and pearls
Has faded as white as foam
Your eyes black as coals watch the cormorants and seals
As you sit on a wet rocky throne

Chorus

Instrumental verse

On land men pray to gods, on sea they pray to you
Hoping their souls will be saved
The brightest of their catch fishermen throw back over
In return you calm the wild angry waves

Chorus x2

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released March 1, 2016
c&p Ceri Ashton

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Follow The Moon Sheffield, UK

The band was formed in 2014 by singer and songwriter Ceri Ashton. We play original folk & pop songs & tunes. The line-up has gradually evolved and grown to the current 6 piece band featuring Kate - bass, Karen - Clarinet, Anna - fiddle, Chris - guitar, Paul - Bodhran as well as Ceri on vocals, fiddle, flute & whistle. ... more

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