Peak and Puke/The Mocking Fairy [DE LA MARE poems set to music]
Channel: tobydarling
Date: 2018-09-20

Peak And Puke

    By Walter De La Mare 

Am     
From his cradle in the glamourie
E7
     They have stolen my wee brother,
Am
     Housed a changeling in his swaddlings
Bm/A
     For to fret mine own poor mother.
C/A
     Pules it in the candle light
Gm7
     Wi' a cheek so lean and white,
Bb
     Chinkling up its eyne so wee,
E7
     Wailing shrill at her an' me.
    Am     
 It we'll neither rock nor tend
   E7
  Till the Silent Silent send,
  Am
   Lapping in their waesome arms
  Bm/A
   Him they stole with spells and charms,
C/A Gm7
     Till they take this changeling creature
    C/A Gm7
 Back to its own fairy nature - 
Bb F
     Cry! Cry! as long as may be,
Bb E7
     Ye shall ne'er be woman's baby!


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The Mocking Fairy - Poem by Walter de la Mare


Em D
'Won't you look out of your window, Mrs. Gill?' 
G Am
Quoth the Fairy, nidding, nodding in the garden; 
' Em D
Can't you look out of your window, Mrs. Gill?' 
G Am
Quoth the Fairy, laughing softly in the garden; 
Bm Am
But the air was still, the cherry boughs were still, 
Bm E7
And the ivy-tod neath the empty sill, 
Dm7 E7
And never from her window looked out Mrs. Gill 
Am D7 Am
On the Fairy shrilly mocking in the garden. 

'What have they done with you, you poor Mrs. Gill?' 
Quoth the Fairy brightly glancing in the garden; 
'Where have they hidden you, you poor old Mrs. Gill?' 
Quoth the Fairy dancing lightly in the garden; 
But night's faint veil now wrapped the hill, 
Stark 'neath the stars stood the dead-still Mill, 
And out of her cold cottage never answered Mrs. Gill 
The Fairy mimbling, mambling in the garden. 

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