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Damh the Bard - Green And Grey
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Damh the Bard - Blodeuwedd
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Damh the Bard - Land, Sky and Sea
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Damh the Bard - Save Me
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Damh the Bard - The Cauldron Born
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Damh the Bard - The Crow Man
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Damh the Bard - The Two Magicians
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Damh the Bard - The Winter King
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Damh the Bard - Antlered Crown And Standing Stone
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Damh the Bard - Bonny Black hare
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Damh the Bard - Branwen's Lament
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Damh the Bard - Brighid
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Damh the Bard - Ceridwen and Taliesin
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Damh the Bard - Cloak Of Feathers
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Damh the Bard - Domeanna
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Damh the Bard - Down In The Garden
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Damh the Bard - Ever with Me
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Damh the Bard - Fith Fath Song
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Damh the Bard - Gently, Johnny.
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Damh the Bard - Green fields of france
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Damh the Bard - Grimspound
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Damh the Bard - Hal an Tow
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Damh the Bard - Immrama (A Soul Quest)
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Damh the Bard - Isis Unveiled
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Damh the Bard - January Man
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Damh the Bard - Lady of the Silver Wheel
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Damh the Bard - Land of the Ever Young
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Damh the Bard - Learning to Fly
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Damh the Bard - Lughnasadh
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Damh the Bard - Lughnasadh Dance
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Damh the Bard - Matty Groves
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Damh the Bard - Merlin am I
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Damh the Bard - Morrighan
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Damh the Bard - Noon Of The Solstice
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Damh the Bard - Oak, Broom & Meadowsweet
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Damh the Bard - Obsession
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Damh the Bard - On Midwinter's Day
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Damh the Bard - Only Human
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Damh the Bard - Only Son
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Damh the Bard - Pagan Ways
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Damh the Bard - Patapan
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Damh the Bard - Pipes of Pan
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Damh the Bard - Raggle Taggle Gypsy
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Damh the Bard - Samhain Eve
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Damh the Bard - Selkie of Sules Skerry
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Damh the Bard - Silent Moon
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Damh the Bard - Song of Awen
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Damh the Bard - Spirit Of Albion
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Damh the Bard - Taliesin's Song
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Damh the Bard - The Ballad of John Barleycorn
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Damh the Bard - The Cutty Wren
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Damh the Bard - The Dreaming
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Damh the Bard - The Greenwood Grove
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Damh the Bard - The Hills they are Hollow
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Damh the Bard - The Mabon
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Damh the Bard - The Parting Glass
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Damh the Bard - The Selkie
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Damh the Bard - The Sons And Daughters (Of Robinhood)
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Damh the Bard - The Sun & The Rose
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Damh the Bard - The Wheel
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Damh the Bard - The Wicker Man
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Damh the Bard - Tomb of the King
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Damh the Bard - Twa Corbies
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Damh the Bard - Under a Beltane Sun
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Damh the Bard - When I become the Moon
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Damh the Bard - Wild Mountain Thyme
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Damh the Bard - Willow's Song
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Damh the Bard - Winds of Change
Matty Groves
Damh the Bard
Lord Darnell's wife came into church, the gospel for to hear.
And when the meeting it was done, she cast her eyes about,
And there she saw little Matty Groves, walking in the crowd.
"Come home with me, little Matty Groves, come home with me tonight.
Come home with me, little Matty Groves, and sleep with me till light."
"Oh, I can't come home, I won't come home and sleep with you tonight,
By the rings on your fingers I can tell you are Lord Darnell's wife."
"What if I am Lord Darnell's wife? Lord Darnell's not at home.
For he is out in the far cornfields, bringing the yearlings home."
And a servant who was standing by and hearing what was said,
He swore Lord Darnell he would know before the sun would set.
And in his hurry to carry the news, he bent his breast and ran,
And when he came to the broad mill stream, he took off his shoes and swam.
Little Matty Groves, he lay down and took a little sleep.
When he awoke, Lord Darnell he was standing at his feet.
Saying "How do you like my feather bed? And how do you like my sheets?
How do you like my lady who lies in your arms asleep?"
"Oh, well I like your feather bed, and well I like your sheets.
But better I like your lady gay who lies in my arms asleep."
"Well, get up, get up," Lord Darnell cried, "get up as quick as you can!
It'll never be said in fair England that I slew a naked man."
"Oh, I can't get up, I won't get up, I can't get up for my life.
For you have two long beaten swords and I not a pocket-knife."
"Well it's true I have two beaten swords, and they cost me deep in the purse.
But you will have the better of them and I will have the worse."
"And you will strike the very first blow, and strike it like a man.
I will strike the very next blow, and I'll kill you if I can."
So Matty struck the very first blow, and he hurt Lord Darnell sore.
Lord Darnell struck the very next blow, and Matty struck no more.
And then Lord Darnell he took his wife and he sat her on his knee,
Saying, "Who do you like the best of us, Matty Groves or me?"
And then up spoke his own dear wife, never heard to speak so free.
"I'd rather a kiss from dead Matty's lips than you and your finery."
Lord Darnell he jumped up and loudly he did bawl,
He struck his wife right through the heart and pinned her against the wall.
"A grave, a grave!'' Lord Darnell cried, "to put these lovers in.
But bury my lady at the top for she was of noble kin."