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Carnival of Strangers: Dite Cizi: Dunnenkirk & the Gypsy
These are the lyrics to a traditional celtic song. We sang it at a Ren Faire and I recently came across it again. I thought you all might appreciate them. They touch me deeply every time I read them through, and it it's own folkloric way tells the tale of a carnival coming together.
I hope you enjoy.
Kindest Regards,
Pele
Carnival of Strangers: Dite Cizi: Dunnenkirk & The Gypsy
A grotesque babe was Dunnenkirk, a freak by nature's making
the priest pronounced him devil spawn, by his own he was forsaken
abandoned to a gypsy crone, never suckled by his mother
the old one fed him roots and bone, she loved him like no other
Dite cizi, I'll lie near you now, dite cizi I'll lie near you
the world will know a noble soul when you have found your way through.
She taught him how to read the stars, how to minister to the broken
to tolerate the ways of all, and know what has been spoken
He closed her eyes the day she died, looked back to remember
then made their hut a funeral pyre...
Oh, heaven rained down embers.
Dite cizi I be with you still, dite cizi I'm still with you,
You'll speak the truth in common tongue though few will understand you.
He lived among the townsfolk then, barefoot and misshapen,
his wisdom fell on fallow ground, from him they kept their children
hidden
he left them after seven years, wearied by their hatred,
Then he looked down from the highest cliff in seach of the exhaulted
A caravan of tangled bones lay tented in the distance
He heard the fates call out his name, from his soul came no resistence
The fringe folk and the wild seed, the freak with four arms flailing
welcomed him among their score like a tincture to their ailing
Dite cizi be you near them now, dite cizi be you near them
Let this be the work that sets their ancient gash to mending
They asked him how to heal their fears, he answered "Face the danger.
We'll build a stage up on the hill, we'll be the carnival of strangers.
Spectators gaze on oddity to be consoled that form is content,
but we were cast with beastly masks that we might learn the
difference!"
Dite cizi you lie near them now, dite cizi you lie near them
They are all they need to be to satisfy their longing.
He traveled with them forty years, in his tent did they gather
To cry, to sing, to seek his words, for he loved them like no other
Late one night when the stage was bright and the blue moon met the bent
tree,
they heard him call to the gypsy crone, "Come find me, I am ready!"
Dite cizi, go you from them now, dite cizi go you from them,
Their twisted limbs are now their wings, your carnival is legend.
Dite cizi come lie near me now, dite cizi come lie near me,
The life you lived as Dunnenkirk is the myth you leave to history.
Dite cizi I'll lie near you now, dite cizi I'll lie near you,
their world did know a noble soul...who helped them find their way
through.
(music - traditional)
(lyrics - Ciara Carinci)
Last edited by Pele (Local user), 9/22/2003, 4:15 pm
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