Rosie Hood 2023
Rosie Hood Band: https://rosiehood.bandcamp.com/track/lyddie-shears and music video: Lyddie Shears | The Rosie Hood Band | Lyric Video
Chorus: The hares fly before me, we dart across the downs Like Lepus from Orion, we’ll keep from the hounds No hunter will snare me, nor drive me from my form I’m Lyddie Shears, and this land is my own In Winterslow Wood is where I made my home Through the fields and the meadows, I often have roamed With brock, fox and coney, at the dawning of each day I wanted for nothing, lived my own way I hear the men talk of the witch in the wood Who can will the crops to fail, with a thought or a look She knows the ways of nature, each root, leaf, and bone They tremble as they think of the wicked old crone At dusk in the meadow the drove set out to graze Serene there among them in the gloaming of the day Then hounds burst from the hedgerow, each hare fled in fright A shot rang out, I stumbled, was lost to the night In Winterslow Wood in my own likeness now I lie upon the bed with one final vow Though a bullet of silver’s lodged deep in my heart Forever with the hares across the downs I will dart