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Freya's Lullaby

from The Undertaker's Daughter by Mama Gina

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Freya’s Lullaby (to Baldur on his day of birth)
© G. LaMonte – 4/2013
Written at GreenSong Grove Beltaine Festival 2013

As if you were not already declared
A child of joy, a child of light
I’m counting your fingers, counting your toes
Born on this longest night

Relief as you cry, and this mother’s first kiss
Brushed softly against your crown
Blood, salt and tears – I taste your whole life
Know it surely as I know my own

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I see your whole life from first love to last
I know your whole life though you’ve not lived it
I see your whole life from first breath to death
And still I would see you live it

How the world loves you and how you do shine
And how could you not, beautiful child of mine
But the Fates see you fall to no warrior’s death
Poor ending for one so divine

I’m Mother, I’m Queen of sun, sea, sky and stone
I will make them all promise to do you no harm
I would protect you my Prince, Little King
And yet, I still see you fall

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My will is great, and the mistletoe small
No promise shall come from that tiny wraithe
I’ll ignore at your peril … oh, the thing I shall miss
And I still see you fall in this mother’s first kiss

My son fully grown in a game of the gods
You’re not touched by stone nor by spear
But a blind man’s aim and a mistletoe dart
And an IMP destroy all I hold dear

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All this I see in a mother’s first kiss
Your heart will stop beating and I will go mad
I will rend my cloak and tear my hair
I will tear down this world until I have you back

I am Mother, I’m Queen … and I cannot change this
But know that I love you with every breath
Know that I love you in life and in death

CHORUS

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from The Undertaker's Daughter, released February 28, 2014

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Mama Gina Tampa, Florida

Award winning singer/songwriter & wanderlust ... fearless story-telling ... bluesy vocals ... humor ... straight-ahead, rhythmic, 12 string acoustic guitar ... djembe ... frame drums ... all weft and warp of the soul of this bard

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