Snow Goose Song

Vom Album Entwined von Siobhan Owen (Melodie auf Bandcamp, wir singen es eine Quarte nach unten transponiert).

All over Europe,
in lands of the winter,
since time immemorial,
this outline is drawn:
mist on the windows,
where children draw pictures,
to show they remember
the Snow Goose song.

When all the geese
fly south for the winter,
one stays behind to fly
northwards instead,
all through the storm-clouds,
the wind and the lightning,
to ransom the sun from
the realms of the dead.

On and on she flies unwearying
over frozen seas.
If she fails, the sun will vanish,
every corner of the world will freeze.

All through the autumn,
the days become shorter,
the first breath of frost
throws a ring round the moon.
Children draw pictures
in mist on the windows,
in hope that the Snow Goose
will send word soon.

On and on she flies unwearying
over frozen seas.
If she fails, the sun will vanish,
every corner of the world will freeze.

Far away, all alone,
no-one sees the Snow Goose die,
but the legend tells them why:
to release the sun,
to release the sun.

When the Snow Goose yields
up her last breath,
wings let their feathers
fall down from the heights,
turn into snowflakes
to kiss the cold ground,
and her heart gives fire
to the Northern Lights…

So we dance in the snow,
So that all our neighbours know
there will be a new sunrise.
Draw the sign of the Snow Goose
(draw the sign of the Snow Goose).

And we hold out our hands
to the world from North to South,
round the earth’s imagined corners,
till we all belong
in the Snow Goose song.