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Haar Cradle Song

from In My End Is My Beginning by MacGillivray

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This track recorded using air from Mary Queen of Scots' Birthing Room at Edinburgh Castle and the creak from her son, James VI's cradle at Traquair House.

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Oh my son, go capture the moon, thistles grow wild in your heart.
The haar is gone and with it, the sun, foreign the night, its black art.
I'll turn in my dream, more mother than queen, wait for your breath in the dark.
The stars I fear are born on a tear, the eagle has dust in his eye.
Oh my son, the haar is gone and with it the cold white moon.
But stay asleep, no eagle shall weep til your breath is still in the dawn.

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from In My End Is My Beginning, released February 8, 2022
MacGillivray, dulcitone, melodica, pedal harmonium, lyrics and arrangement. performed and written by MacGillivray.

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MacGillivray Scotland, UK

MacGillivray is a Scottish poet and musician, signed to Antigen Records and 100 Acre Recordings and published by Bloodaxe, 'The Nine of Diamonds: Surroial Mordantless' 2016 and 'The Last Wolf of Scotland' (2nd edition) Redhen, Los Angeles. MacGillivray has performed with The Fall, Arlo Guthrie, Thurston Moore, Alan Moore, Shirley Collins and many others. ... more

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