Tall, graceful, beautiful and noble, masters of all arts and alchemy
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The tuatha de danann ruled Ireland until the coming of the Celtic people. Retreating before the rougher ways of the invaders. The people of Danann (or Danu) Inhabited the high lonely places, eventually disappearing under ground in their fairy forts, and the hills like Cnoc medha (or hill on the plain) near Tuam where Fin Bhera , King of Connacht fairies lives with Nula , his queen , and a host of the Sidhe.
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Called "Fairies" "the Good Folk" " the Gentry" "The wee Folk" or Sidhe(pronounced Shee) they love feasting , singing , dancing and music. Whenever they play their pipes you can hear their music as clear as day and it is the grandest kind of music. It may last half the night but once day comes it ends.
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Twilight, dawn, May and November eve are all times of the change when the mysterious entrance to the world of the fairies may become visible! A Human who becomes enchanted on hearing fairy music, and dances all night on the hill will never return to the world of the humans and is referred to as being "away with the fairies"
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A twinkle of light
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Coming down from the mountain
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A wonderful, magical
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Sound from the hill
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A sound half-forgotten
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But still here inside me
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It calls me s gently
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I shiver and trill
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And weĄŻll dance all night on
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The hill
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WeĄŻll go away with the fairies
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Back to fields
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And weĄŻll climb the hill
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Away with the fairies
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Ah cĄŻmon please say you will
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Ah cĄŻcom please say you will
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We can go to the world
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Of the legends and twilight
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The world of the wee-folk
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The fairy, the sidhe
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If we dance to their music
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WeĄŻll stay there forever
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In the misty oulĄŻ moonlight
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The dawn of the free
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And weĄŻll dance and dance and dance
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And dance
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WeĄŻll dance all night
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On the hill
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Copyright D.Carton/L.Moran/P.Donnley/P.Stevens
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Away With the Fairies
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