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New Lyrics & Fantasy Video for the Ancient Celtic Melody "Give Me Your Hand"
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Mary Kay Aufrance composed lyrics and recorded the ancient Irish tune "Give Me Your Hand" with her vocals, performing with her husband Tom as Gairin Celtic Music on their album Musical Dreams, and she published her music score in her book titled Musical Dreams: Sheet Music and Lyrics.
A Celestial Goddess, Cosmic Fairies and Mystical Portal
In this video, the story of "Give Me Your Hand" unfolds in this fantastical depiction of a celestial goddess cradling fairies with fluttering wings amidst planets and orbs in the universe. As the fairies alight and fly toward a glowing planet, life seemingly forms out of the glow, and two lovers walk through a verdant meadow in the sun. The lovers embrace and turn their attention toward the sky, where a drop of rain descends into the woman's hand and the fairies emerge to raise their wands and again rest in the hand of the celestial goddess. A wooden portal appears, and its doors open onto the lovers walking toward a glowing moon and into the night sky, where they are enshrouded by mists, and one of the fairies hovers as she watches over this final scene. The cycle of creation and discovery seems continuous and guided by the fairies and goddess.
About The Tune "Give Me Your Hand"
This traditional Irish tune was originally written by Turlough O’Carolan, and it is a favorite of musicians who play Irish music. It's a pretty tune with no ancient lyrics, however a legend says that the lyrics to this song were lost. Therefore, since we play this tune a lot with other musicians, I guess I decided this song called out for me to write its story. In doing so, I felt the tune suited a space and time travel fantasy. Perhaps not what O'Carolan had in mind, but what I had in mind.
Give Me Your Hand
by Turlough O'Carolan,
Lyrics by Mary Kay Aufrance
Performed with Tom Aufrance
If you gave me a star from the back of the sky.
I would hold it in close like a small firefly.
And with light in my palm we could see to go far.
Past the mists and the moors through the otherworld doors.
Through eternity’s gate on the wings of our star.
Those souls who had sung this tune long ago,
might tell you a secret that only they know.
For their dreams still live on though their world is long gone.
But their lyrics were lost in the mists of all time
so we try to retrieve them today with all our rhymes.
So give me your hand and we’ll go to that land, that’s
beyond our time far on the wings of our star.
