{"product_id":"goddard-mark-the-great-selkie-of-sule-skerry-unaccompanied-satb-digital-download","title":"Goddard, Mark - The Great Selkie of Sule Skerry - Unaccompanied SATB- (Digital Download)","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"text-decoration: underline; color: rgb(255, 42, 0);\"\u003eMinimum order of 8 copies. Volume discounts are available.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"text-decoration: underline; color: rgb(255, 42, 0);\"\u003ePrice shown is for 8 copies\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eThe Great Selkie of Sule Skerry\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e— A setting for unaccompanied choir (SATB) by Mark Goddard.\u003cbr\u003eTHe anonymous text was adapted by Stephen Pegg.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe “\u003cem\u003eGreat Selkie of Sule Skerry\u003c\/em\u003e” is a traditional folk song from Orkney and Shetland. A woman has her child taken away by its father, the great Selkie of Sule Skerry, who can transform from a seal into a human. The woman is fated to marry a gunner, who will harpoon the Selkie and their son.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e1. An earthly nurse sits and sings,\u003cbr\u003eAnd aye, she sings, by Lily wean!\u003cbr\u003eAnd little ken I my bairn’s father,\u003cbr\u003eFar less the land that he dwells in.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e2. He came one night to her bed feet,\u003cbr\u003eA grumly guest I’m sure was he:\u003cbr\u003eSaying “Here am I, thy bairn’s father,\u003cbr\u003eAlthough that I be not comelie”.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e3. “I am a man upon the land,\u003cbr\u003eAn’ I am a Selkie in the sea,\u003cbr\u003eAnd when I’m far and far frae land,\u003cbr\u003eMy dwelling is in Sule Skerrie”.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e4. It shall come to pass on a summer’s day,\u003cbr\u003eWhen the sun shines bright on ev’ry stone,\u003cbr\u003eI’ll come and fetch my little young son,\u003cbr\u003eAnd teach him for to swim the foam.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e5. “And ye shall marry a gunner good,\u003cbr\u003eAnd a right fine gunner I’m sure he’ll be,\u003cbr\u003eAnd the very first shot that e’er he shoots,\u003cbr\u003eWill kill both my young son and me”.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe front cover image features an enhanced illustration from Vernon Hill’s 1912 book “Ballads, Weird and Wonderful” by Richard Chope.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Syrinx Music","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48662826746111,"sku":"C1001D","price":73.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1548\/4529\/files\/C1001-Cover-rnssyl9b80iqtbij7zps9otimdt7snfw6gkdbywvjo.jpg?v=1781253331","url":"https:\/\/syrinxmusic.com\/products\/goddard-mark-the-great-selkie-of-sule-skerry-unaccompanied-satb-digital-download","provider":"Syrinx Music","version":"1.0","type":"link"}