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The Cruel Sister

from Into Being by Ephemeral

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lyrics

There lived a lady by the North Sea shore
Lay the bent to the bonnie broom
Two daughters were the babes she bore
Fa la la la la la la la la la

A knight came riding to the lady's door
He'd travelled far to be their wooer

He courted one with gloves and rings
But loved the other above all things

"Oh sister, will you go with me
To watch the ships sail on the sea?"

She took her sister by the hand
And led her down to the strand

And as they stood on that windy shore
The older threw her sister o'er

And there she floated like a swan
The salt sea bore her body on and on

Two minstrels walked along the strand
And saw the maiden float to land

(Antoi impi hapsiansa,
hienoja hivuksiansa
antoi hasta viisi, kuusi, ...)

They made a harp of her breastbone
Whose sound would melt a heart of stone

(... sekä seitsemän hivusta:
siit' on kielet kantelessa,
ääntimet iki-ilossa.)

They took three locks of her yellow hair
And with them strung the harp so rare

They went into her father's hall
To play the harp before them all

But as they laid it on a stone
The harp began to play alone

The first string sang a doleful sound:
"The bride her younger sister drowned"

The second string, as that they tried
In terror sits the black-haired bride

The third string sang beneath their bow:
"And surely now her tears will flow"

(Saip' on soitto valmihiksi.
Siitä vanha Väinämöinen
istuiksen alakivelle,
paatiselle portahalle.)

credits

from Into Being, released November 24, 2023
Lyrics: Trad., based on "The Twa Sisters" (Child Ballad 10); additional quotes from the "Kalevala", Runo 44
Music: Trad., arrangement: Nikolaus Jira, Ella Zlotos, Patrick Maiwald

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