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Fairy Willow

from Dr. Faber's Medicine Show by Cat Faber

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The author of the Fairyland books (Girl Who Circumnavigated Fairyland" is most of the title of the first one) asked in a tweet what people's fairyland self would be and what their name would be. My answer was a willow and the name was a phrase of music. This song followed the next day when I realized willows don't actually get around much.

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Fairy Willow
lyrics and melody by Cat Faber 2012

I met a fair willow, with autumn ablaze;
Her fronds in the wind seemed to murmur a phrase....
Beside a still pool at a bend in a stream,
Music as shy as a tune from a dream--

I met a fair willow, and slowly I learned,
As drawn by her music I ever returned.
Friends we became, each discovering each.
In time I deciphered the songs of her speech--

I found in the end, though the music was good
I can't be content in the bounds of a wood.
I bade her goodby, went my fortune to find
Though often her name seemed to ring in my mind--

Returning with tales I was certain would please,
The hour I beheld her I fell to my knees,
For lightning had left her all blasted and torn
Charred to her roots, with her foliage shorn--

I honored her memory as well as well as I could
And fashioned a sweet mandolin from her wood.
I knew I'd done right when to sleep having lain,
I woke in the darkness to hear this refrain--

In spring's flower-breezes and autumn's sweet chill
We travel together wherever we will.
We follow our road as it wanders and bends,
Singing our songs in a circle of friends--

Humor me here, though my story was long
Let us blend voices as comrades in song
This wandering willow as kin let us claim;
Kindly allow her to tell you her name--

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from Dr. Faber's Medicine Show, released January 13, 2014

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Cat Faber Tennessee

I write music about science fiction and fantasy subjects, commonly referred to as "filk."

I write much faster than I can record. Recent songs may be found at my website--the URL is given below.

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