Cygnet
Words and Music by Beth Hudson Wheeler
Inspired by The Sorceress and the Cygnet by Patricia McKillip
8/15/08
C D G C
Children dance in a ring of song
C D G C
Chanting rhymes to the stars above
C D G C
You and I will always belong
C D C D
Close to the simple things we love
Em D C D
But legend comes shining into day
Em D C D
Falling brilliant from the sky
G D C Em
What is too heavy a price to pay?
C D C D
What lies under the Cygnet’s eye?
Birds that burn in a house of dreams
Mirrors show what lies within
Naught is ever as it seems
What must I release to win?
Free the King from his chains of gold
Loose the Weaver’s ancient thread
Free the Dancer from the cold
Cede the Warlock’s star of red
Em D C Em
And the black swans still fly on
Em D C D
Winging dark into the dawn
Tangled web of power and time
Gathered here from out of night
Conjured by a smallfolk rhyme
Shadowing the Cygnet’s flight
What I know I never learned
Chosen guardian from the start
Destiny can yet be turned
How can I find the Cygnet’s heart?
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