Harp Song of the Dane Women

from Whispers by Hanna van Gorcum

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lyrics

What is a woman that you forsake her,
And the hearth-fire and the home-acre,
To go with the old grey Widow-maker?

She has no house to lay a guest in -
But one chill bed for all to rest in,
That the pale suns and the stray bergs nest in.

She has no strong white arm to fold you,
But the ten-times-fingering weed to hold you
Bound on the rocks where the tide has rolled you.

Yet, when the signs of summer thicken,
And the ice breaks, and the birch-buds quicken,
Yearly you turn from our side, and sicken -

Sicken again for the shouts and the slaughters, -
You steal away to the lapping waters,
And look at your ship in her winter quarters.

You forget our mirth, and talk at the tables,
The kine in the shed and the horse in the stables -
To pitch her sides and go over her cables!

Then you drive out where the storm-clouds swallow:
And the sound of your oar-blades falling hollow,
Is all we have left through the months to follow.

Ah, what is Woman that you forsake her,
And the hearth-fire and the home-acre,
To go with the old grey Widow-maker?

credits

from Whispers, released May 17, 2022
poem: R. Kipling, music: H. van Gorcum

feat. Lies Sommer (harp)

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Hanna van Gorcum Rotterdam, Netherlands

Violinist, singer, nyckelharpa player from the Netherlands. Influences are from traditional Scandinavian and Irish music, as well as baroque and rock.

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