[Bodhi]

Well, this section seemed a little empty.

I wrote this when my wife was at the hospital at the time when our first child was going to be born. I was frantic with worry that it was going to be a still birth so I wrote this sad little medievalinspired tune to my stillborn son.
Turned out it wasn't a son, but a daughter, and she was just fine and is now nine years old (so it's an old song)
Our band played it a few times with bodhran and mandoline as only music added to the song - we made a "bridge" before the last verse with the Irish instrumental tune "king of the fairies" on thinwistle:

Now I'll sing you a little lullaby
of sorrow and joy
The sweetest little lullaby
for my little boy
Of a sleeping child
And of fairies gone wild
And of fairies gone wild

Come join us says the fairie queen
join our delight
Come join us says the fairie queen
and shine with us bright
In the wirling dance
Come be entranced
Come be entranced

Come sing with us and dance with us
and twinkle tonight
Come tumble with us turn with us
in joyfull fright
In our dancing joy
Come dance little boy
Come dance little boy

BRIDGE (King of the fairies - a fast tune steadily increasing in speed)

Now In that little grove
where an unmarked grave lies
In that little grove
Where a sick child did die
There stands an apple tree
That the fairies gave thee
That the fairies gave thee

[ugluk69]

Cool....I not a fairy thinking faries are cool am I. Who the the artist that draws all the awesome fairies Ann Brown or something??

[Bodhi]

She does the "flowery" variety.
For fairies closer to what I believe folktale fairies would appear like I would turn to Brian Froud.
Folktale fairies are neither cute nor sweet but associated with death, confusion and VERY VERY unpredictable.
Those are the type I had in mind. Like the unseelie court of Ireland.

[ugluk69]

Well I was wrong its Amy Brown who does the fairies, but she does do some dark fairies but they are still the pretty ones.....just with an attitude. Good subjects for a tatoo maybe.....