Loreena Mckennitt - Moon Cradle lyrics

When the moon-cradle`s rocking and rocking

Where a cloud and a cloud go by

Silently rocking and rocking

The moon-cradle out in the sky.

Then comes the lad with the hazel

And the folding star`s in the rack

`Night`s a good herd` to the cattle,

He sings, `She brings all things back.`

But the bond woman down by the boorie

Sings with a heart grown wild

How a hundred rivers are flowing

Between herself and her child.

`The geese, even they trudge homeward

That have their wings and the waste,

Let your thoughts be on Night the Herder,

And be quiet for a space.`

The moon-cradle`s rocking and rocking,

Where a cloud and a cloud go by,

Silent rocking and rocking

The moon-cradle out in the sky.

The snipe they are crying and crying

Liadine, liadine, liadine

Where no track`s on the bog they are flying:

A lonely dream will be mine!