Lagan Love
Traditional Irish – Arrangement: Brenda Wootton
Brenda at Newlyn Harbour © Sue Ellery-Hill
Brenda’s selection of material for her concerts very much depended on her singing songs with which she felt comfortable, which appealed to her, and hopefully, to her audiences. Fairly obviously, her choices were very popular with audiences around the world – and although her love of Cornwall shone through every programme, audiences could also expect to be regaled with an eclectic range of songs incorporating bawdy humour, sensitive love songs, powerful spirituals, ballsy blues and punchy rock numbers.
Here is Brenda’s arrangement of “Lagan Love”
Where Lagan streams sing lullaby
There blows a lily there
The twilight gleam is in her eye
And night is on her hair
And like a love-sick lennanshee
She has my heart in thrall
Nor life I owe, nor liberty
For love is lord of all
At even, when the beetles’ call
Hath lulled the world to sleep
I creep down to her shielding ‘lorn
And through the doorway peep
There on the cricket-singing stone
She stirs the bogwood fire
She hums in sweet, sad undertones
The song of heart’s desire
Sue Ellery-Hill Aug 2020