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Come To The Dance

A Gypsy-flavored song of invitation to celebration.

COME TO THE DANCE
words and music by Arthur Hinds

Come to the dance we step in a circle
Dance to the earth and your soul attune
Come with a sing for the love of the Mother
Sing with the voice of the rising moon

Come to the dance we do for the Old Ones
Dance into space and time apart
Send up the call to those who will hear it
Arise all you of the Pagan heart

Away we'll go to the rhythm of the pounding night
So we flow from darkness into light
We may dream from awakening into trance
So it seems as we all come to the dance

©Emerald Rose

Arthur Hinds--vocals, bodhran
Brian "Logan" Sullivan--guitar, mandola
Larry Morris--pennywhistle
Clyde Gilbert--percussion

 

Take Me Down (to Her Water)

A song about the love for water and its healing effect on the human spirit.

TAKE ME DOWN (TO HER WATER)
words and music by Arthur Hinds

you can see her, great mother ocean
lying placid under sunrise or whitecapped under storm
you will find her in that emotion
that arises in the shallows where she keeps you safe and warm
In her eyes the horizon distant where desire meets the sky
let arise the voice insistent, raise your hands to her and cry

take me down to her water
take me down to her water
take me down ... take me down
and let her fill me up

and you will see her, great goddess river
in a thousand flowing silver strands and each one bears her name
she is a shaper, she is a giver,
and if you ever touch that loving pulse, you never will be the same
reach out your hands and feel the flow and the cleansing on your skin
hear the ripple, its whispers know, of the stream that lies within

(chorus)

you can see her, great lake mother, she's a pool of living blue
you can sing of life to each other, she will teach the words to you
she's a song of love, she's a voice of life,
she's a refuge from heartache and strife
and when the angry world batters my soul,
there's only one way I can rebuild myself
find my center and fill up my life

(chorus)

©Emerald Rose

Arthur Hinds--vocals, guitar
Brian "Logan" Sullivan--vocals, guitar
Larry Morris--vocals, drums
Clyde Gilbert--bass

VAMPIRE GIRL FROM ORN

A tale of semi-divine visitation.

VAMPIRE GIRL FROM ORN

She came from outer space
She landed in a crater
We said, "Take you to our leader?"
She said, "Maybe later..."
She was five foot six, and nothin' short of stunning
Had the kind of legs that would get your motor running
The Vampire Girl
The Vampire Girl from the Planet Orn

She came to town
Her skirt it was a scandal
To all the local boys, she said
"How much can ya handle?"
Billy Lee, he fell into her clutches
To this day, he only walks with crutches
The Vampire Girl
The Vampire Girl from the Planet Orn

Bobby was the village Casanova
Twenty minutes with her and his career was over
Handsome Jack, she kept from dawn to dusk
We found him by the roadside, a dessicated husk
from the Vampire Girl
The Vampire Girl from the Planet Orn

Everybody wondered if the man was ever born
Who could satisfy her cravings from the evening to the morn
Anyone who tried was met with shame and scorn
It was Wierd Harry who married the Vampire Girl from Orn

The wives and girlfriends, they formed a little posse
Went to have a talk with this new town hussy
They went in, ready for some crushing
When they came on out, they were gigglin' and a blushin'
The Vampire Girl
The Vampire Girl from the Planet Orn

Three at a time, oh man the girl was scary
She finally ran across Old Weird Harry
He was skinny, his knees they were all knobbly
But three days later he wasn't even wobbly from the
Vampire Girl
The Vampire Girl from the Planet Orn

He had her number, everyone could tell
A few days later we were hearing wedding bells
It wasn't rhino horn, it wasn't Ayurvedic
His secret was a specialty prosthetic
for the Vampire Girl
The Vampire Girl from the Planet Orn

Larry Morris - vocal, bell
Brian "Logan" Sullivan -guitar, vocal
Arthur Hinds - drums & effects
Clyde Gilbert - bass