A song inspired by the events surrounding the Cottingley Fairies - a song about nature, woodland walks, and finding magic behind every tree...! 🧚🏻✨🌸🍃
Girl as green as elderflower
Sings to you through April showers
In summertime she’ll bring champagne;
When autumn comes her wine will stain
Your mouth with bitter berry taste -
Take your cup, and do not waste
Its warming or her warning not to
Hasten on the year
Girl as soft as thistledown
Purple flowers in her crown.
She waits for you beside the way
And knows you’ll pass again some day
To see her coronation gown,
Buzzing servants all around
Be careful not to trample on her
Skirts spread on the ground
Girl as red as autumn leaves
Smiles indulgent at the thieves
Who take her fallen branches home,
Store them safe to warm their bones
With curling smoke and stories told
Around the fires of red and gold
They’ll not forget to thank the girl
That kept them from the cold
Girl as white as mistletoe
Blows you kisses through the snow.
Hiding in the apple trees
She knows your secrets and she sees
The wishes that you hold inside -
She sees your fears, she sees your pride,
But maybe if you ask her she will
Share her fears with you
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For more information on the 'Fairy Light' immersive installation marking the centenary of the Cottingley Fairies photographs (give or take a couple of years for Covid-related interruptions...!) for which I designed the (very cool, if I do say so myself!) interactive soundscape, please go take a peek here: redhoodproduct...
3 окт 2024
