Held Prisoner in Hampton Roads

Celtic music

I have eclectic music taste - Celtic folk songs (Celtic Woman), South African township music (Ladysmith Black Mombazo), Bluegrass, Metal (AC/DC, Metallica, Ozzie, Scorpions, et. al), big band (Glen Miller, Sy Zentner, Benny Goodman, Tommy Dorsey), classic rock (Zeplin, Clapton, Seeger, Tom Petty, Pink Floyd).

Today, I was listening to Aideen O'Brien singing "A Bunch of Thyme." If you listen very closely to the lyrics and think about their meaning, you may find a message that mothers and fathers should impress on their daughters. :o) What do you think?

A Bunch of Thyme.

Come all ye maidens young and fair.
And you that are blooming in your prime.
Always beware and keep your garden fair.
Let no man steal away your thyme.

Chorus: For thyme it is a precious thing,
And thyme brings all things to my mind.
Thyme with all its flavours, along with all its joys,
thyme, brings all things to my mind.

Once I and a bunch of thyme.
I thought it never would decay.
Then came a lusty sailor,
who chanced to pass my way.
And stole my bunch of thyme away.

(Chorus)

The sailor gave to me a rose.
A rose that never would decay.
He gave it to me,
to keep me reminded,
of when he stole my thyme away.

(Chorus)

Come all ye maidens young and fair.
And you that are blooming in your prime.
Always beware and keep your garden fair.
Let no man steal away your thyme.