Heather Dale

Heather Dale is a Canadian singer-songwriter with Celtic roots, writing original songs inspired by ancient life and legends (like the King Arthur tales). Her music ranges from rousing singalongs about life in the Renaissance, to haunting tales of magic from the age of Camelot. She is a life-long fan of fantasy literature, particularly Guy Gavriel Kay, Mercedes Lackey and Raymond E. Feist, and she loves hearing new songs from the rest of the filk community. Lots of info is available on her website at www.HeatherDale.com, including her own short story re-tellings of the King Arthur legends.

Representative work for the 2005 Pegasus Awards (Note: this song is NOT a Pegasus nominated song- it is a representative work for Best Performer and/or Best Writer/Composer categories):

Mordred's Lullaby

by Heather Dale
Copyright Amphisbaena Music, 1997 - All Rights Reserved
Used by Permission

Morgan La Fay singing her son Mordred to sleep, giving him all her bitterness and hatred for her brother King Arthur.

Hush, Child,
The darkness will rise from the deep
And carry you down into sleep...
Child,
The darkness will rise from the deep
And carry you down into sleep...

Guile Son,
I~Rll shape your belief
And you~Rll always know that your father~Rs a thief
And you won~Rt understand the cause of your grief
But you~Rll always follow the voices beneath...

Loyalty Loyalty Loyalty Loyalty
Loyalty Loyalty Loyalty Only to me...

Guile Son,
Your spirit will hate her
The flower who married my brother the traitor
And you will expose his puppet behaviour
For you are the proof of how we betrayed her...

Loyalty Loyalty Loyalty Loyalty
Loyalty Loyalty Loyalty Only to me...

Hush, Child,
The darkness will rise from the deep
And carry you down into sleep...
Child,
The darkness will rise from the deep
And carry you down into sleep...

Guile Son,
Each day you grow older
Each moment I~Rm watching my vengeance unfold
For the child of my body, the flesh of my soul
Will die in returning the birthright he stole...

Hush, Child,
The darkness will rise from the deep
And carry you down into sleep...
Child,
The darkness will rise from the deep
And carry you down into sleep...