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Sirensong

from Old Salt by Cailean

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lyrics

‘Twas a stormy night
Off the Eastern Coast
Uneasily did I lie
‘Til the captain yelled
“We’re bound for hell!”
And to make with our last goodbyes
I gave my love
To the Father above
For a favor He still owed me
And we held her fast
But she would not last
As the gales they were a’blowing

I went overboard
Twenty miles from the shore
Darkness fell around me
When her hand took mine
She said, “You’ll be fine.
Call me Miss Anna Marie.”

I’ve spun a while around here
On this old ball of dirt
And I’m like to stick around
A few turns more
But boys when I go down for good
Don’t you lay me in the earth
Bring me with the whiskey
To the shore
Let me go
Set me free
To the song of my siren
My Anna Marie

When I came to
There were eyes a’blue
Staring into mine
With hair as red as this
Old world’s end
She floated amidst the brine

I cried, ‘My dear,
How’d you find me here?
I swear I’d seen the light.’
She just shook her head,
She smiled and said,
‘Well boyo, guess it wasn’t your time.’

I’ve spun a while around here
On this old ball of dirt
And I’m like to stick around
A few turns more
But boys when I go down for good
Don’t you lay me in the earth
Bring me with the whiskey
To the shore
Let me go
Set me free
To the song of my siren
My Anna Marie

She laid me ashore
In the warmth of the morn,
Rested her brow upon me
With a wicked grin, she said,
‘See you again.’
And vanished back into the sea

I’ve spun a while around here
On this old ball of dirt
And I’m like to stick around
A few turns more
But boys when I go down for good
Don’t you lay me in the earth
Bring me with the whiskey
To the shore
Let me go
Set me free
To the song of my siren
My Anna Marie

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from Old Salt, released September 20, 2012

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Cailean Grand Rapids, Michigan

We are Cailean, and we believe in stories—the ones we tell and the ones we have been told from generations past. We started Cailean (Kal-un) in early 2012 as a project devoted to the exploration of storytelling in the melding of Irish and American folk-rock themes.

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