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by Fionvarra - Andrew Persi & Louisa John-Krol

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'Sirensong' is inspired by Oscar Wilde's fairy tale 'The Fisherman And His Soul'. In our original song/story, mermaid Eloise rescues a fisherman, Luty, by calming the waves with her harp and singing, in a voice so sweet and high that Luty is unable to forget her. She later returns to him as a gypsy, for a terrible price: should he not wed her within seven years, she will lose both her chance to be human, and the last of her sea powers.

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Verse One:

Something in the storm tells him
she would come tonight
When she does he won't let her out of his sight!
He'll not be a poor fisherman, she'll make him a king,
so promised the merrow of the sea.

Verse Two:

She had sea-wild eyes
in the palest face
Half hidden by golden hair.
She was green iridescence,
shimmering water-form,
waves whispering everywhere.

Chorus:

Luty! Down in the deep we're calling,
Luty, won't you come back with me?
Luty, you are the one I came for
Luty, come into the sea

Verse Three:

All across the ocean
she would dance away his fear
Now he'll never dare
To let her out of his dreams
Her eyes are the ocean
Laughing through her hair:
Luty! Come into the sea...

Repeat Chorus:

Luty! ... etc.
Luty... my Luty... Come into the sea

credits

released January 15, 2019
Original song by 1980's ethereal folk duo Fionvarra.
Instrumental composition, performance on guitar, harp(s) & keyboards, production (including effects, recording & mixing): Andrew Persi.
Vocal melody, lyrics, narrative, singing: Louisa John-Krol.

Composed late 1980's, released 1990 on cassette only, entitled 'The Faerietale Woman'. Sold & played by proprietor Anne Atkins at Wonderwings Fairy Shop (in Richmond, Melbourne), the world's first fairy shop at which Louisa was a pioneer fairy storyteller, slipping tunes into stories, an Australian tradition continued by Dee Waight at Myths & Legends fairy shop in Gisborne, Victoria, for over a quarter of a century.

The Fionvarra recordings ranged from whimsical to spectral tones, inhabiting a homespun yet timeless, otherworldly fey dimension. Thirty years on, these low-fi tapes were recently converted to digital files for safekeeping, with a view to sharing on the internet and/or CD as archival material in 2019, three decades after inception.

The image for this free online preview is from an illustration entitled 'Silence' (1912) by Edmund Dulac.

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Louisa is an Australian singer, composer, writer & faery storyteller who has released many albums of ethereal music on indie labels, primarily in France. She's completing a fantasy series, The Elderbrook Chronicles, with a soundtrack.

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