Thorn Tree
Lyrics - Temple Lane
Music - Castalia
Fairy Trees exist to this day in Ireland. They have existed since the Beginning of Time, and will remain until the End.
All night around the thorn tree the little people play
And men and women passing will turn their heads away
From break of dawn till moonrise
Alone it stands on high
With twisted springs for branches across the winter sky.
They’ll tell you dead men hung there
It’s black and bitter fruit.
To guard the buried treasure
Round which it twines its root
They’ll tell you Cromwell hung them
But that could never be
He’d be in dread like others
To touch the Fairy Tree
From Moonrise ‘round the thorn tree the little people play
And men and women passing will turn their heads away.
But if your heart’s a child’s heart and if your eyes are clean
You’ll never fear the thorn tree that grows beyond Clougheen.
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