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A Fairy Story

Brobdingnagian Bards Podcast

Release Date: 08/24/2022

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WELCOME

UPCOMING SHOWS

Andrew McKee:

  • SEP 1-5: Dragon Con, Atlanta, GA
  • SEP 10-11 Sherwood Celtic Festival
  • NOV 5-DEC 11 Louisiana Renaissance Festival

Marc Gunn:

  • AUG 26: Three Taverns Brewery, Decatur, GA @ 6:30-9:30 PM
  • SEP 1-5: Dragon Con, Atlanta, GA
  • SEP 10-11: Middle Tennessee Highland Games & Celtic Festival, Hendersonville, TN
  • SEP 28-OCT 2: Hobbit Band at ALEP in Shakertown, KY
  • OCT 14-16: MultiVerse, Atlanta, GA

SONG STORY: A FAIRY STORY

A Fairy Story” by Brobdingnagian Bards from A Faire to Remember

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SONG LYRICS: A FAIRY STORY

words and music by Shay Healy, Oisin Music Ltd, Ireland

In days of old in a kingdom bold, there lived a fearsome dragon. And the King he was in great distress and the countries spirits flagoned. Until one day there came a knight, he was handsome, bold, and charming. And he slew the dragon with his sword with a smile that was so disarming. With a hey and a ho and a hey nany no, a smile that was so disarming.

Said the King I wish to know your name, but the knight said do not bother. For the name of a knight of the realm says he, is the same as any other. Said the King tonight in my daughter's bed you shall take your leisure. And she'll reward you for your deed, with a night of exhausting pleasure. With a hey and a ho and a hey nany no, anight of exhausting pleasure.

One daughter she had raven hair, a maiden young and chaste. And she slept all night in the pale moonlight, naked to the waist. The other daughter she was fair, the fairest in the town. And she slept all night in the pale moonlight naked from her small waist down. With a hey and a ho and a hey nany no, naked from her small waist down.

Well the knight he spends many hour behind the castle wall. But the ending to my story dear, isn't what it seems at all. For in neither bed of neither maid was he repaid for his glory. But he slept all night with the King instead for this is a fairy story. With a hey and a ho and a hey nany no, for this is a Fairy story.