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Nine Maidens

 

Janey and me went dancing

high up on the moor,

Janey counted eight stones,

Me, I wasn't sure.

 

Round the old Stone Circle,

Ribbons flying high,

Janey and me went dancing

'til darkness filled the sky.

 

"Oh, Janey, let's go home now,

I hear the church-bell chime",

But Janey wasn't tired at all

of dancing all the time.

 

I told Jane the story

of a Changeling Child;

Janey wouldn't listen,

Janey's eyes were wild.

 

Janey wasn't seen again

by the old Ley Line;

When they went to count the Stones,

Next day there were nine!

 

by

Shirley Frances Winskill 2001