The Selkie - Aine Minogue

An earthly nourish sits and sings

And ay she sings by lily wean

Little ken I my bairn’s father

Far less the land that he stops in I am a man upon the land

I am a silkie in the sea

And when I’m far and far from land

My dwelling is in Sule Skerrie

It shall come to pass on a summer’s day

As the sun shines hot on every stone

That I shall take my little young son

And teach him for to swim the foam

I am a man upon the land

I am a silkie in the sea

And when I’m far and far from land

My dwelling is in Sule Skerrie

«It was not well,"said the maiden fair

«'Twas not well, indeed,"said she

That the great Silkie of Sule Skerrie

Should have come and brought a bairn to me