Name: Dance of the Days (Part 2)
Duration: P00H03M40S
Description: The travelling girl leaves her home in the forest to live with the young man in his castle. But having been named by one of the Folk has unexpected drawbacks...

Dance of the Days (Part 2)

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

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The travelling girl leaves her home in the forest to live with the young man in his castle. But having been named by one of the Folk has unexpected drawbacks...

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I gave to you the rainbow month
This month of lakes and rivers
I gave to you the rosy month
Or starlight and of lovers

I gave to you the flower month
This month of new beginnings
I gave to you the golden month
The month of bees and lacewings

And will you take this dance, this dance
This dance of the seasons, this dance of the days?
And will you take this dance, this dance?
I say: I will: you say: I may.

I give to you the icy month
The lover man with two faces,
I give to you the windy month
That through the treetops races

I give to you the whirling month
This month of snow and sorrow
I give to you the harvest month
Of ravens and of swallows

And will you take this dance, this dance
This dance that is older than mountains or sea?
And will you take this dance, this dance,
And will you take this dance with me?

I give to you the darkest month
This graveyard month, December
I give to you the darkest month
So that you may remember

And now the year is over, and
The dance has come full circle.
We take our places once again
With you now in the middle.

And will you take this dance, this dance
This dance that reaches so very far?
And will you take this dance, this dance,
That mirrors the dance of the circling stars?

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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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