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Parallel Dreams Full Album by Loreena McKennitt
Parallel Dreams Full Album
Tuning: E A D G B E
Track List
1. Samain Night
2. Moon Cradle
3. Huron 'Beltane' Fire Dance
4. Annachie Gordon
5. Standing Stones
6. Dickens' Dublin (The Palace)
7. Breaking The Silence
8. Ancient Pines
# 1 - Samain Night
Capo 2
[Intro]
Dm C F G
Dm C F G
Dm C F G
Dm C F G
[Verse]
Dm C F G Dm C F G
When the moon___ on a cloudless night
Dm C F G Dm C F G
Shone above___ the treetops' height
Dm C F G
You sang me of some distant past
Dm C F G Dm
That made my heart beat strong and fast
C F G Dm C F G Dm C F G
Now I know I'm home at last
[Verse]
Dm C F G Dm C F G
You offered me__ an eagle's wing
Dm C F G Dm C F G
That to the sun__, I might soar and sing
Dm C F G
And if I heard the owl's cry
Dm C F G
Into the forest I would fly
Dm C F G Dm
And in its darkness find you by
[Instrumental]
Dm C F G
Dm C F G
Dm C F G
Dm C F G
Dm C F G
[Verse]
Dm C F G Dm C F G
So our love's not a simple thing
Dm C F G Dm C F G
Nor our truths unwavering
Dm C F G
Like the moon's pull on the tide
Dm C F G
Our fingers touch, our hearts collide
Dm C F G Dm C F G
I'll be a moon's-breath from your side
Dm C F G Dm C F G
I'll be a moon's-breath from your side
Dm C F G Dm
I'll be a moon's-breath from your side
[Outro]
Dm C F G
Dm C F G
Dm C F G Dm
# 2 - Moon Cradle
[Intro]
C D C D
[Verse]
C
When the moon cradle's rocking and rocking
D
Where a cloud and a cloud go by
C
Silently rocking and rocking
D
The moon cradle's out in the sky
[Verse]
C
Then comes the lad with the hazel
D
And the folding star's in the rack
C
"Night's a good herd," to the cattle he sings
D
"She brings all things back"
[Verse]
C
But the bondwoman down by the boorie
D
Sings with a heart grown wild
C
How a hundred rivers are flowing
D
Between herself and her child
[Verse]
C
"The geese, even they trudge homeward
D
That have their wings and the waste
C
Let your thoughts be on Night the Herder
D
And be quiet for a space"
[Verse]
C
When the moon cradle's rocking and rocking
D
Where a cloud and a cloud go by
C
Silently rocking and rocking
D
The moon cradle's out in the sky
[Verse]
C
The snipe, they are crying, crying
D
Liadine, liadine, liadine
C
Where no track's on the bog, they are flying
D
A lonely dream will be mine
C
Where no track's on the bog, they are flying
D
A lonely dream will be mine
[Outro]
C D C D C D
# 3 - Huron 'Beltane' Fire Dance
(Instrumental - no lyrics)
# 4 - Annachie Gordon
Capo 2
[Intro]
G C G C D G
G C G C D G
[Verse]
G C G
Harking is bonny and there lives my love
C G C
My love lies on him and cannot remove
G D Em C G
It cannot remove for all that I have done
C G C
And I never will forget my love, Annachie
[Verse]
G D Em C G
For Annachie Gordon, he's bonny and he's bright
C G C
He'd entice any woman that e'er, e'er he saw
G D Em C G
He'd entice any woman and so he has done me
C G C
And I never will forget my love, Annachie
[Verse]
G C G
Down came her father, he's standing at the door
C G C
Saying, "Jeannie, you are trying the tricks of a whore
G D Em C G
You care nothing for a man who cares so very much for thee
C G C
You must marry Lord Sultan and leave Annachie"
[Verse]
G D Em C G
For Annachie Gordon, he's barely but a man
C G C
Although he may be pretty, but where are his lands?
G D Em C G
For the Sultan's lands are broad and his towers, they run high
C G C
You must marry Lord Sultan and leave Annachie"
[Verse]
G C G
"With Annachie Gordon, I beg for my bread
C G C
Before I marry Sultan, his gold to my head
G D Em C G
With gold to my head and straight down to my knee
C G C D
And I'll die if I don't get my love, Annachie
[Verse]
G D Em C G
And you who are my parents, to church you may me bring
C G C
But unto Lord Sultan, I'll never bear a son
G D Em C G
To a son or a daughter, I'll never bow my knee
C G C D
And I'll die if I don't get my love, Annachie"
[Verse]
G C G
Jeannie was married and from church was brought home
C G C
When she and her maidens, so merry should have been
G D Em C G
When she and her maidens, so merry should have been
C G C D
She goes into her chamber and cries all alone
[Verse]
G C G
"Come to my bed, my Jeannie, my honey and my sweet
C G C
To stile you my mistress, it would be so sweet"
G D Em C G
"Be it mistress or Jeannie, it's all the same to me
C G C
But in your bed, Lord Sultan, I never will lie"
[Verse]
G D Em C G
Then down came her father, he's spoken with renown
C G C
Saying, "You who are her maidens, go loosen up her gowns"
G D Em C G
And she fell down to the floor and straight down to her knee
C G C
Saying, "Father, look I'm dying for my love, Annachie"
[Instrumental]
G C G C D G
G C G C D G
[Verse]
G C G
The day that she was married, was the day that Jeannie died
C G C
And the day that young Annachie came home on the tide
G D Em C G
And down came her maidens, all wringing of their hands
C G C
Saying, "Oh it's been so long, you've been so long on the sands
G D Em C G
So long on the sands, so long upon the floods
C G C
They have married your Jeannie and now she lies dead"
[Verse]
G C G
"You who are her maidens, come take me by the hand
C G C
And lead me to the chamber where my love, she lies in"
G D Em C G
And he kissed her cold lips 'til his heart, it turned to stone
C G C
And he died in the chamber that his love, she lies in
[Outro]
G C G C D G
G C G C D G
# 5 - Standing Stones
Capo 4
[Intro]
Em C D
Em C D
Em C D
Em C D
Em D Em C
Em D Em C
[Verse]
Em D C G Am G/B C
In one of these lonely Orkney Isles, there dwelled a maiden fair
Em D C G Am G/B C
Her cheeks were red, her eyes were blue, she had yellow, curling hair
Em D G D Em C
Which caught the eye and then the heart, of one who could never be
Em D C G Am G/B C
A lover of so true a maid or fair a form as she
[Verse]
Em D C G Am G/B C
Across the lake in Sandwick dwelled a youth she held most true
Em D C G Am G/B C
And ever since her infancy he had watched these eyes so blue
Em D G D Em C
The land runs out into the sea, it's a narrow neck of land
Em D C G Am G/B C
Where weird and grim the Standing Stones, in a circle where they stand
[Instrumental]
Em D Em C
Em D Em C
[Verse]
Em D C G Am G/B C
One bonny moonlight Christmas Eve, they met at that sad place
Em D C G Am G/B C
With her heart in glee, the beams of love were shining on her face
Em D G D Em C
When her lover came and he grasped her hand, what loving words they said
Em D C G Am G/B C
They talked of future's happy days as through the stones they strayed
[Verse]
Em D C G Am G/B C
They walked toward the lovers' stone and through it passed their hands
Em D C G Am G/B C
They plighted there a constant troth, sealed by love's steadfast bands
Em D G D Em C
He kissed his maid and then he watched her, that lonely bridge go o'er
Em D C G Am G/B C
For little, little did he think, he wouldn't see his darling more
[Chorus]
Em C D Em
Standing Stones of the Orkney Isles
C D
Gazing out to sea
Em C D Em
Standing Stones of the Orkney Isles
C D
Bring my love to me
[Instrumental]
Em D Em C
Em D Em C
[Verse]
Em D C G Am G/B C
He turned his face toward his home, that home he did never see
Em D C G Am G/B C
And you shall have the story as it was told to me
Em D G D Em C
When a form upon him sprang, with a dagger gleaming bright
Em D C G Am G/B C
It pierced his heart and his dying screams disturbed the silent night
[Instrumental]
Em C D
Em C D
Em C D
Em C D
Em D Em C
[Verse]
Em D C G Am G/B C
The maid had nearly reached her home when she was startled by a cry
Em D C G Am G/B C
She turned to look around her and her love was standing by
Em D G D Em C
His hand was pointing to the stars, his eyes gazed at the light
Em D C G Am G/B C
And with a smiling countenance he vanished from her sight
[Verse]
Em D C G Am G/B C
She quickly turned and home she ran, not a word of this was said
Em D C G Am G/B C
For well she knew at seeing his form that her faithful love was dead
Em D G D Em C
And from that day she pined away, not a smile seen on her face
Em D C G Am G/B C
With outstretched arms she went to meet him, in a brighter place
[Chorus]
Em C D Em
Standing Stones of the Orkney Isles
C D
Gazing out to sea
Em C D Em
Standing Stones of the Orkney Isles
C D
Bring my love to me
[Chorus]
Em C D Em
Standing Stones of the Orkney Isles
C D
Gazing out to sea
Em C D Em
Standing Stones of the Orkney Isles
C D
Bring my love to me
[Outro]
Em C D
Em C D
Em C D
Em C D
Em C D
Em C D
# 6 - Dickens' Dublin (The Palace)
[Intro]
Em D G Em D Em
[Verse]
(Spoken by a street urchin)
Am Em
Joyful mystery, the birth of our Lord. This night our Lady and St. Joseph was
Bm Am
going up to get registered and, and they were going down the road and they
Em C D
met this man and, and he said, "Have you any room?" And he said, "No, but
G D/F# G C
there's an old stable over there that I owned, if yous want to go into it."
D Em Am Bm
And they went over and the lord came down from the heaven at twelve o'clock
C D
and loads of beautiful angels was with them, and when they were walkin'...
[Verse]
Em D/F# G D
I walk the streets of Dublin town
Em C D
It's eighteen forty-two
Em D/F# G D
It's snowing on this Christmas Eve
Em C Em
Think I'll beg another bob or two
Am
I'll huddle in this doorway here
Em Bm
'Til someone comes along
Am
If the lamp lighter comes real soon
Em C D
Maybe I'll go home with him
G D/F# G C D
Maybe I can find a place I can call my home
Em Am Bm C
Maybe I can find a home I can call my own
[Verse]
(Spoken by a street urchin)
D C D C
These three wise kings, and, and they were all in different countries. And
D C D
they always used to look up at the sky and they looked up this night and saw
C D C
this beautiful star up in the sky. And when they were going they all meeted
D C D
together and whe.., you have.., they had to pass King Herod's place, not that
C D C
we much care for him. And they went in and, and he said, "And where yous
D
goin' with yer best stitches on ye?"
[Verse]
Em D/F# G D
The horses on the cobbled stones go by
Em C D
Think I'll get one, one fine day
Em D/F# G D
And ride into the countryside
Em C Em
And very far away
Am
But now as the daylight disappears
Em Bm
I best find a place to sleep
Am
Think I'll slip into the bell-tower
Em C D
In the church just down the street
G D/F# G C D
Maybe I can find a place I can call my home
Em Am Bm C
Maybe I can find a home I can call my own
[Verse]
(Spoken by a street urchin)
D C D
And they said, "Did you not hear the news?" and say he says, "What news?"
C D
He says, "This day the saviour is born." And he says to them, "When you find him,
C D C
come back and tell me 'cause I want to go and adore him too." And he was only
D C D
coddin' them. He wanted to kill him and when they were going, they stopped
C D C D
and they said, "Surely not this old stable that our king is born in. We were
C D
expecting a palace."
[Verse]
Em D/F# G D
Maybe on the way I'll find the dog
Em C D
I saw the other night
Em D/F# G D
And tuck him underneath my jacket so
Em C Em
We'll stay warm through the night
Am
And as we lie in the bell-tower high
Em Bm
And dream of days to come
Am
The bells o'er head will call the hours
Em C D
Some day we will find a home
G D/F# G C D
Maybe I can find a place I can call my home
Em Am Bm C D
Maybe I can find a home I can call my own
G D/F# G C D
Maybe I can find a place I can call my home
Em Am Bm C D
Maybe I can find a home I can call my own
[Verse]
(Spoken by a street urchin)
C D
There was these shepherds and shepherds are fellas that mind the foals and
C D C D
cows and sheeps and little lambs and all and, um, they hears this beautiful
C D N.C.
music up in da sky and they were wondering what was so fun. An angel
N.C.
disappated them and he said, "I was wonderin' what was so fun" and he said
N.C.
ye, and he said, "The saviour is born. If yous want to go see him, follow
N.C.
that star up in the sky," and it was a beautiful star.
# 7 - Breaking The Silence
Capo 3
[Intro]
Am G/B Am Dm Am Dm Am E7 Am
Am G/B C Dm E7 Am
Am G/B C Dm E7 Am
Am G/B C Dm E7 Am
G/B C
[Verse]
Dm E7 Am G/B C
I hear some distant drumbeat
Dm E7 Am G/B C
A heartbeat pulsing low
Dm E7 Am G/B C
Is it coming from within
Dm E7 Am G/B C
A heartbeat I don't know?
[Verse]
Dm E7 Am G/B C
A troubled soul knows no peace
Dm E7 Am G/B C
A dark and poisoned pool
Dm E7 Am G/B C
Of liberty now lost
Dm E7 Am G/B Am
A pawn, an oppressor's tool
[Chorus]
G/B C
Oh, my heart be strong______
Dm E7 Am G/B C
A guide when eyes grow dim
Dm E7 Am G/B C
When ears grow deaf with empty words
Dm E7 Am G/B C
When I know there's life within
[Verse]
Dm E7 Am G/B C
A gunfire shatters silence
Dm E7 Am G/B C
Where birds once sweetly sang
Dm E7 Am G/B C
A mother cradles a child now dead
Dm E7 Am G/B C
Now death where life began
[Verse]
Dm E7 Am G/B C
From the troubled heart of South Africa
Dm E7 Am G/B C
Nicaragua's festering sore
Dm E7 Am G/B C
The turmoil on the streets of China
Dm E7 Am G/B Am
Death crying out for more
[Chorus]
G/B C
Oh, my heart be strong______
Dm E7 Am G/B C
A guide when eyes grow dim
Dm E7 Am G/B C
When ears grow deaf with empty words
Dm E7 Am G/B C
When I know there's life within
[Verse]
Dm E7 Am G/B C
A change is slow in coming
Dm E7 Am G/B C
My eyes can scarcely see
Dm E7 Am G/B C
The rays of hope come streaming
Dm E7 Am G/B Am
Through the smoke of apathy
[Chorus]
G/B C
Oh, my heart be strong______
Dm E7 Am G/B C
A guide when eyes grow dim
Dm E7 Am G/B C
When ears grow deaf with empty words
Dm E7 Am G/B C
When I know there's life within
[Verse]
Dm E7 Am G/B C
May the spirit never die
Dm E7 Am G/B C
A troubled heart feels pain
Dm E7 Am G/B C
When the long winter is over
Dm E7 Am
It will blossom once again
[Outro]
Am G/B C Dm E7 Am
Am G/B C Dm E7 Am
Am G/B C Dm E7 Am
Am G/B C Dm E7 Am
Am G/B C Dm E7 Am
Am G/B C Dm E7 Am
Am G/B C Dm E7 Am
Am G/B C Dm E7 Am
# 8 - Ancient Pines
(Instrumental)
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