Name: All Hallows
Duration: P00H06M37S
Description: It is All Hallows' Eve, the time for celebration: the night when the Travelling Folk meet in their own skins for one last time, before the coming of Winter.

All Hallows

from A POCKETFUL OF CROWS by Joanne Harris and the Storytime Band

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It is All Hallows' Eve, the time for celebration: the night when the Travelling Folk meet in their own skins for one last time, before the coming of Winter.

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By day, we walk in green and grey
By night, we walk in sorrow
We watch the people of the day
We travel in their shadow.

The daylight folk, they dance and sing
The daylight folk are golden.
But our folk serve the Winter King
To none are we beholden.

We are the humble and the poor
We live in heath and heather
Our castle is the windy moor
Our crown, the black crow’s feather.

But on All Hallow’s Eve we’ll go
A-roaming, and make merry,
And you’ll be Queen of Fiddler’s Green
And I’ll be King of Faerie.

We are the fox, we are the crow
The corncrake and the raven
We are the hare, the wolf, the doe
The heather and the hawthorn.

We walk among you, all unseen
In stolen rags and feathers
We fly into the open sky
In every kind of weather.

And when the daylight folk pass by
They never see or hear us
But shiver, without knowing why
They so disdain and fear us.

But on All Hallow’s Eve we’ll go
A-roaming, and make merry,
And you’ll be Queen of Fiddler’s Green
And I’ll be King of Faerie;

And on All Hallow’s Eve you’ll see
Our folk in all their glory
The kings and queens of Fiddler’s Green
The ranks of October’s army.

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from A POCKETFUL OF CROWS, released October 31, 2019
Words by Joanne Harris: music by Paul Marshall and Kevin Harris.

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Joanne Harris and the Storytime Band Huddersfield, UK

Joanne Harris (joanne-harris.co.uk) is the internationally acclaimed author of over 20 novels, plus short stories, libretti and scripts. With the Storytime Band, she performs original music and songs - along with the stories that inspired them - festivals across the UK.

“Harris plays a mean flute... her band supply accomplished folk-prog textures. Enchanting.” (Prog Magazine, August 2018) ... more

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