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This song was written by the amazing Mistress Wyndreth Berginsdottir. I use it here with her express permission!
This version of My Mother's Savage Daughter will appear on my second album, Song Calls To Song. All proceeds from the sale of this single will go toward hiring a cellist to play on 5 tracks of the new album. Thank you for your purchase!
lyrics
My Mother's Savage Daughter words/music c.1990 k.l. u. kahan
Chorus:
I am my mother's savage daughter,
the one who runs barefoot cursing sharp stones.
I am my mother's savage daughter,
I will not cut my hair, I will not lower my voice.
My mother's child is a savage,
She looks for her omens in the colors of stones,
In the faces of cats, in the fall of feathers,
In the dancing of fire and the curve of old bones.
(Chorus)
My mother's child dances in darkness,
And sings heathen songs by the light of the moon,
And watches the stars and renames the planets,
And dreams she can reach them with a song and a broom.
(Chorus)
My mother's child curses too loud and too often,
My mother's child laughs too hard and too long,
And howls at the moon and sleeps in ditches,
And clumsily raises her voice in this song.
(Chorus)
Now we all are brought forth out of darkness and water,
Brought into this world through blood and through pain,
And deep in our bones, the old songs are wakening,
So sing them with voices of thunder and rain.
(Chorus x3)
We are our mother's savage daughters,
The ones who run barefoot cursing sharp stones.
We are our mother's savage daughters,
We will not cut our hair, We will not lower our voice
credits
released October 29, 2020
My Mother's Savage Daughter words/music c.1990 k.l. u. kahan
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