Ann Mayo Muir songs
BIRD ROCK was written by my friend Gordon Bok. It is with his permission that I post it because it has always been among my favorites. The melody enchants me. The poetry spins me out over the sea, flying
where the gulls fly, seeing what they see and knowing what they know. I discover a great beauty inside this song .
Gordon plays 6-string guitar; Ed Trickett : hammered dulcimer and I have the lead vocal and play flute.
Row, my child to the Bird Rock,
Where the gulls are sailing free.
Dreams they will bring, and dreaming:
Dreams of the cold green sea.
And who would be there but you, child,
To see what dreams there be?
Ho-ray, ho-row, oh-hoo-row.
Row, my child, be rowing;
The day goes down before.
And the ship-of-fairies sailing
To a dark and distant shore.
And who then would say what treasures
Would ever await them there?
Sing, child, for the kingdom
That ever we thought was gone.
For the ship-of-ghosts is sailing,
And that one will always return.
Drowned are the lands and gone the sails,
And the gull is their voice alone.
Row , my child, the day is bright
Where the young birds learn to sing,
And the sun is a wheel of wonder
That only the gull can spin.
And the gull is a slow and lifting swell
That the world has given wing.
Ho-ray, ho-row, oh-hoo-row
Der hvor al'le Moken ar....
"Moken" means (Gulls) in Norwegian.
Thanks for listening,
Annie
where the gulls fly, seeing what they see and knowing what they know. I discover a great beauty inside this song .
Gordon plays 6-string guitar; Ed Trickett : hammered dulcimer and I have the lead vocal and play flute.
Row, my child to the Bird Rock,
Where the gulls are sailing free.
Dreams they will bring, and dreaming:
Dreams of the cold green sea.
And who would be there but you, child,
To see what dreams there be?
Ho-ray, ho-row, oh-hoo-row.
Row, my child, be rowing;
The day goes down before.
And the ship-of-fairies sailing
To a dark and distant shore.
And who then would say what treasures
Would ever await them there?
Sing, child, for the kingdom
That ever we thought was gone.
For the ship-of-ghosts is sailing,
And that one will always return.
Drowned are the lands and gone the sails,
And the gull is their voice alone.
Row , my child, the day is bright
Where the young birds learn to sing,
And the sun is a wheel of wonder
That only the gull can spin.
And the gull is a slow and lifting swell
That the world has given wing.
Ho-ray, ho-row, oh-hoo-row
Der hvor al'le Moken ar....
"Moken" means (Gulls) in Norwegian.
Thanks for listening,
Annie
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