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Alison Cross

from Neath the Gloaming Star by Hannah Rarity

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Child Ballad no. 35
An ugly witch casts a spell upon a man who refuses to be her lover

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Alison Cross lives in yon tower
The ugliest witch in the north countrie
She's trysted me ae day 'til her bower
And mony's the braw speech she made tae me

She showed me a mantle o reid scarlet
Weel wrocht wi gowd and fringes fine
Says, "Gin ye'll be my leman sae true
This gudely gift, it shall be thine"

"Awa, awa ye ugly witch
Haud far awa and let me be
Afore I'll kiss yer ugly mou
I'd raither toddle aroond the tree"

She showed me a sark o the saftest silk
Weel wrocht wi pearls abune the band
Says, "Gin ye'll be my leman sae true
This gudely gift's at your command"

An' she's ta'en oot her grass-green horn
She blew it three times loud and shrill
She swore by the moon and the stars abune
She'd gar me rue the day I ever was born

An' she's ta'en oot her silvery wand
She straiked it three time o'er her knee
She muttered sic words as my senses failed
I fell doon senseless tae the groond

It fell upon last Hallowe’en
When the seely coort cam riding by
The queen's lichtit doon on a gowany bank
Nae far fae the tree whaur I did lie

An' she's ta'en oot her silvery wand
She straiked it three times o'er her knee
She turned me back tae ma proper shape
Nae mair tae toddle aroond the tree

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from Neath the Gloaming Star, released September 2, 2018
Trad arr. Burton, Lowrie, McDonagh, Rarity, Simpson, White (PRS/MCPS)

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Hannah Rarity Glasgow, UK

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Combining sublime vocal timbre and uncanny interpretive empathy, Rarity ranks as one of Scotland’s finest young singers, having toured internationally with US supergroup Cherish the Ladies as well as appearing and recording w RSNO, Blazin’ Fiddles, Rura & Niteworks.
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