[00:40.27]In Norwa there sits a maid [00:44.74]Byloo my baby she begins [00:53.69]Little know I my child's father [01:01.97]For if land or sea he's living in [01:10.85]Then there arose at her bed feet [01:19.11]A grumbly guest I'm sure it was he [01:27.60]Saying Here am I thy child's father [01:36.50]Although that I am not comely [01:45.43]I am a man upon the land [01:54.72]I am a selchie in the sea [02:02.61]And when I am in my own country [02:09.63]My dwelling is in Suleskerry [02:18.52]Then he had taken a purse of gold [02:26.71]And he hath put it upon her knee [02:34.03]Saying Give to me my little wee son [02:41.71]And take thee up thy nurse's fee [03:23.44]It shall come to pass on a summer's day [03:31.98]When the sun shines hot on every stone [03:40.95]That I shall take my little wee son [03:48.99]And teach him for to swim in the foam [03:57.93]You will marry a gunner good [04:06.13]And a proud good gunner I'm sure he will be [04:14.86]But he'll go out on a May morning [04:23.49]And kill both my wee son and me [04:32.67]Loath she did marry a gunner good [04:41.30]And a proud good gunner I'm sure it was he [04:49.65]The very first shot that he did shoot [05:02.50]He killed the son and the gray selchie [05:11.43]In Norwa there sits a maid [05:15.80]Byloo my baby she begins [05:24.69]Little know I my child's father [05:33.08]For if land or sea he's living in [05:41.93]In Norwa there sits a maid