The Hare And The Moon-The Wife Of Usher’s Well [with lyrics]

Song: The Wife of Usher’s Well Artist: The Hare and The Moon Album: Wood Witch Year: 2015 After it haunted my playlist for the entire spring of that year (and my mind as well), I decided to take my phone and try to translate through its lens the emotions that I felt by listening to this song. And here it is: A dark, gloomy, yet comforting perspective of the grief of the wife of Usher’s Well. The audio content is owned by The Hare and The Moon. Here are the lyrics for a more easy search: “There lived a wife at Usher’s Well, And a wealthy wife was she; She had three stout and stalwart sons, And sent them over the sea. They hadna been a week from her, A week but barely ane, Whan word came to the carline wife, That her three sons were gane. They hadna been a week from her, A week but barely three, Whan word came to the carlin wife That her three sons were gone. “I wish the wind may never cease, Nor fashes in the flood, Till my three sons come hame to me, In earthly flesh and blood.“ It befell about the Martinmass, When nights are long and mirk, The carlin wife’s three sons came hame, And their hats were o the birk. It neither grew in syke nor ditch, Nor yet in ony sheugh; But at the gates o Paradise, That birk grew fair enough “Blow up the fire my maidens, Bring water from the well; For a’ my house shall feast this night, Since my three sons are well.“ And she has made to them a bed, She’s made it large and wide, And she’s taen her mantle her about, Sat down at the bed-side. Up then crew the red, red, cock, And up the crew the gray; The eldest to the youngest said, ’Tis time we were away. The cock he hadna crawed but once, And clappd his wings at a’, When the youngest to the eldest said, Brother, we must awa. The cock doth craw, the day both daw, The cahannerin worm doth chide; Gin we be mist out o our place, A sair pain we maun bide. “Fare ye weel, my mother dear! Fareweel to barn and byre! And fare ye weel, the bonny lass That kindles my mother’s fire!“ Enjoy! :)