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Fair Lady Atlantia (1990s version)

from Minstrel by Trade (and a Fool in my Spare Time) by Efenwealt Wystle

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NOTES:
This is the classic 1990s version of the song. A newer, updated version with some altered lyrics is available on my album 'Holding On'.

In the tradition of Dougie MacLean's Caledonia, I wrote this as a love song for the place I call home, especially about North Carolina where I do most of my roaming. Its not really a war song, and was never intended to be a national anthem, but it seems to unite Atlantia's people as strongly as an anthem should. The last half verse I wrote a few years after the song's original inception. This is the first recording of that bit. I especially want to thank my friend Oshi for singing some back up on this recording. He was in much pain during the session, but I've always loved hearing his voice with mine.

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LYRICS:
As I stand upon this mountain, looking out across the sea
Through the mist I see a land that strangely calls to me
I can hear familiar voices, saying "You've been gone too long"
But on the breeze, the sound grows louder, I think I hear a song

chorus:
Fair Lady Atlantia, she rides upon the wind
The bravest of warriors, and the poet's friend
Though I've traveled for many days
She never seems so far away
Fair Lady Atlantia, my lady by the sea

The gentle folk they still remember the simple days of years gone past
In Crannag Mor, at Tear Sea's Shore, at home in Elvegast
I long to roam Windmasters' hills, the mountaintops of Sacred Stone
And wander through her boundless woodlands, I long to be back home

Now I stand upon this mountain, looking at the land below
I turn once more and say "Farewell" to those that I have known
For now its time to journey onward, along an endless winding road
But someday I'll return to see the place I call my home

Through the years that I have traveled. So many places I have seen
I close my eyes and I can see the land within my dreams

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from Minstrel by Trade (and a Fool in my Spare Time), released August 1, 1999

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