"Lugh" genre: Stories and Myths
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	A story in verse about the irish Sun God, Lugh.
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	Story Behind the Song This story was written after reading about the myth of the Irish Sun God, Lugh, and his transmogrification into the King of the Faeries Lyrics Raven and spear and the longhanded Lugh like Odin equipped into fear A fightin of Balor in search of the truth Magician of sling and of spear A little stone ball entered Balor's droop eye defeatin Formorii tribes My Kingdom of Tuatha de Danaan close by recorded by legend and scribes In cattleraid country I rescued my son Cuchullan of Dechtire of Dreams Whose fifty great women were birds when I'd done And Dechtire the Bird of my Schemes My son was accepted in Ulster's best house The whelp of a Chieftain - the hound In Cullan's main cattleraid - tired as the cows - he lived when I gave him the ground Long years since I died - my body was gone - I came in a mist and a maze to the King of All Ireland victorious Conn and said he would live out his days and kinsmen of his would rule on in his stead A dynasty made from his stock Secure on the Great Throne of Ireland they'd bed each woman who pleased from the flock Much later the Tuatha de Danaan were lost They fled under hillock and mound where Dagda The Father of Gods to our cost changed all who still lay under gound And I - from The Sun God - was shrivelled to stoop And all of my people wore green We come back as leprechauns - single and troop Lughansa records where we've been And I am the King of The Faeries they say The tiny green Imps of the Land We rule this great island of Ireland today A bright and malicious great band When leprechauns call you will always obey We'll snip off your beard and your toes Or sometimes be gentle and lead you astray Remember we'll always be foes For we are the Little Ones - stooping and green The imps who lead goodness astray Pretend you've not heard us Deny what you've seen Shut your eyes and get off on your way Charlotte Peters Rock

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