Cunning and Art

Lyrics traditional
Music by Chalice and Blade

Thus I invoke the Lady White
To come to us this sacred night.
By Fin and Feather, Leaf and Tree,
And I will show you a Mystery!

Oh, I shall go into a hare
with sorrow, sighing and mickle care
And I shall go in the Lady's Name
Until I be fetched hame!

Hare, take heed of a swift greyhound
Will harry thee all these fields around
For here come I in the Lady's Name
All but for to fetch thee hame!

Chorus:
Cunning and art she did not lack
But aye his whistle would fetch her back!
Cunning and art he did not lack
But, aye, her Cauldron will bring him back!

Yet I shall go into a bee
With mickle fear and dread of thee
And flit to hive in the Lady's Name
Ere that I be fetch-ed hame!

Bee, take heed of a red, red cock
Will harry thee close thru door and lock
For here come I in the Lady's Name
All but for to fetch thee hame!

Chorus

Yet I shall go into a trout.
With sorrow and sighing and mickle doubt
And show thee many a merry game
Ere that I be fetch-ed hame!

Trout, take heed of an otter lank
Will harry thee close from bank to bank
For here come I in the Lady's Name
All but for to fetch thee hame!

Chorus

Yet I shall go into a mouse
And haste me unto the Miller's House
There in his corn to have good game
Ere that I be fetch-ed hame!

Mouse, take heed of a black tom-cat
That never was baulked of mouse nor rat
For here come I in the Lady's Name
And -thus- it is I fetch thee hame!

Cunning and art she did not lack
But aye his Song has fetched her back!
Old Winter's dead, the Lady reigns
And Summer has returned again!

Thus I invoked the Lady White
To come to us this sacred night.
By Fin and Feather, Leaf and Tree,
And I have shown you a Mystery!

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