A delicate guitar love ballad, harkening to Medieval fantasy.
Evocative acoustic balladeer
Story behind the song
This song is my attempt to create a song that could be mistaken for a traditional British folk song.
Set in Medieval England, it's about a beautiful girl who's been turned into a fabulous horse of radiant aspect by a jealous magician. Only half-conscious of her previous humanity, see runs among the forests of Somerset County, often pursued by hopeful peasants and rogues... and her heartbroken lover.
The song ends with an optimistic assurance that the two will finally be united someday, since even Fate itself must yield to a love so true.
- Alan Kim Cochran
Lyrics
The Somerset Mare
by Alan Kim Cochran
In the darkness of night, in the black final hours
She drifts a witchlight, among nightshade flowers
And shuns mortal men, with their wild-eyed stare
Through forest and glen, rides the Somerset Mare
Once mortal, once girl, turned now, by the Mage
Unrequited lover, to bring her to the cage
She runs in the woods, her true love forlorn
He searches to find her, his lover's heart torn
Yet one day they shall marry, as fey lovers do
For dread Fate must yield, to hearts that ring true
The spell will be broken, but for now she remains
The Somerset Mare, running wild, without reins
In the darkness of night, in the black final hours
She drifts a witchlight, among nightshade flowers
And shuns mortal men, with their wild-eyed stare
Through forest and glen, rides the Somerset Mare
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