Morrigan’s Lament

Cú Chulainn, Cú Chulainn…
Yonder lies he, sleeping after a long way home.
Cú Chulainn, Cú Chulainn…
His eyes of forest green closed,
And the flames dancing in his hair in the dusky light…
Cu chulainn, Cu chulainn …
Let me touch you.
Let me feel the fire within you.
Cu chulainn, Cu chulainn…
Let me marvel at the flames
Dancing in your hair.
Cu chulainn, Cu chulainn..
No mortal can resist you,
No goddess can tempt you.
No passion can trouble you
In your sleep tonight.

Cu chulainn, Cu chulainn,
No price is high enough
And nothing I wouldn’t give
To touch the flames
Dancing in your hair…

Cu chulainn, Cu chulainn. ..
No goddess is good enough
To tempt you-
Yet I will try.

Cu chulainn, Cu chulainn…
Thrice have you refused me,
Thrice I begged,
Thrice I came to you unarmed.

Cu chulainn, Cu chulainn…
Death awaits you,
For I have washed your armor
At the fort tonight.

Cu chulainn, Cu chulainn…
I will make you mine-
If not in life, in death-
For nothing is more precious

Than the flames dancing in your hair.