Gruagach! from UnSeelie Self by Alexander James Adams

GRUAGACH!
Music & Lyrics: Heather Alexander

Deep within the forest dark,
Lies a beast with baleful bark!
Feasting on an infant's soul,
Cross its path and pay the toll!

ARA'! GRUAGACH!
ARA'! GRUAGACH!

Pass not through the village gate!
Sun is set and day is late!
If you walk alone at night,
You meet black and grey and white!

Crouched upon a rock or tree,
It eats either you or me!
It needs neither knife nor bowl,
Drink your blood out of your skull!

Eyes that blaze a fearful red!
Claws that rend a body dead!
Teeth that strip your white bones bare!
They knit mittens from your hair!

They will tan your hide for shoes!
Boil your fat to grease their stews!
Singing shanties to your groans!
Playing pipes of hollowed bones!

Run! Hide! Stay inside!
Listen unto me!
Dark sport is the court
of the Un-Seelie!

These words I have saved 'til last!
Learn them well and hold them fast!
Never venture from your bed!
Else your very soul is dead!

Sea Fire Productions Inc c&p 2002, 2010

• Alternative
• celtic
• fantasy folk
• Redmond