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<pre><font size='+2'>Horslips - THE MORRIGANS DREAM Lyrics</font><br>One night in bed, the promiscuous Connacht Queen, Maeve, quarrels with her<br>husband Ailill.  They argue over who has the most wealth.  Ailill doesn't<br>like the suggestion that he's a kept man.  &quot;Her words were sharp; they cut<br>him deep, in a war between the sheets&quot;.  Ailill's magnificent White Bull is<br>the deciding factor in their subsequent measuring of possessions.  Maeve's<br>a bad loser.  Mac Roth, her messenger, goes to Cooley to rent the famed<br>Brown Bull for a year, thus giving Maeve the decider.  &quot;I once told her where<br>she could find her dream&quot;.  The Bull's owner is agreeable until Mac Roth and<br>his party get very drunk and reveal that had they not been allowed to borrow<br>the bull they would have taken it by force.  The deal breaks down.  They go<br>home emptyhanded.  Maeve decides on war.<br>   Having marshalled all her warriors, and allies from Munster and Tara, and<br>with Ailill's six brothers and their armies standing by Maeve receives<br>favourable omens from her Druids.  The long march to Cooley begins.  &quot;The<br>champions and the Seven Sons are come to take away the Donn&quot;.  However, a<br>sorceress appears and warns Maeve of impending defeat at the hand of Dearg<br>Doom, Cu Chulainn.  &quot;Saw the host stained red in war, saw the hero-light<br>around the head of a dragon-boy&quot;.  The warning is ignored.<br>   Meanwhile, the men of Ulster are ill with labour pains - the legacy of a<br>curse put on them for their inhuman treatment of a pregnant woman.  The one<br>man exempt from this curse is Cu Chulainn, whose very birth is shrouded in<br>mystery.  Singlehandedly he takes on the defence of Ulster, harassing Maeve's<br>soldiers, &quot;And like a hawk I'll swoop and swoop again&quot;, beheading those who<br>stray from the main force.  &quot;You can hear me shout 'two heads are better than<br>none.  One hundred heads are so much better than one'&quot;.  Cu Chulainn is a<br>hard man.  Originally called Setanta, he became known as Cu Chulainn, the<br>Hound of Culann, because of his savagery.  As the Connacht losses grow<br>greater, the deposed King of Ulster, Fergus MacRoich, who is having a secret<br>affair with Maeve, meets Cu Chulainn and arranges a treaty.  Cu Chulainn<br>agrees to singlehanded combat with any Connacht champion provided Maeve's<br>army does not advance.  One by one, day after day he defeats each warrior<br>until eventually he faces his old foster-brother and close friend Ferdia.<br>Cu Chulainn pleads with Ferdia to leave.  &quot;But Ferdia just laughed and shook<br>his golden head and then they fell to battle again&quot;.  For three days they<br>fight at a ford and appear evenly matched until on the third day Cu Chulainn<br>flies into a rage and lets loose his supernatural javelin, the terrible Gae<br>Bolga, which destroys his friend.  As Ferdia falls Cu Chulainn catches him<br>and carries him to the riverbank, lamenting.  &quot;Life was a game, Now I miss<br>your name; your golden hair&quot;.  Then overcome by despair Cu Chulainn abandons<br>the fight.<br>   Maeve's army moves south with the stolen bull.  The Ulster men rally and<br>with Cu Chulainn in their ranks they give chase.  &quot;But before you hit off,<br>let me say this time you bit off more than you can chew&quot;.  The Morrigan,<br>Queen of Demons, who has been encouraging slaughter all along, prophesies<br>the outcome.  In the battle which follows the Connacht army is routed.<br>&quot;It seems our fortunes lied despite our gain.  Our tears fall like our<br>pride&quot;.  Maeve's life is spared by Cu Chulainn.  As the Ulstermen are taking<br>the Brown Bull home, they meet Ailill's Bull, the White-Horned one.  The Donn<br>immediately attacks the White.  &quot;You can fool them alright but can you fool<br>the beast&quot;?  All day and night they are locked in combat.  Morning sees the<br>Donn victorious.  The armies consider destroying him, the cause of all their<br>suffering, but leave him as, dying, he staggers homewards.<br><br><a href='http://www.lyricsanimal.com' target='_blank'>Lyrics Animal</a> | <a href="http://www.lyricsanimal.com/horslips-lyrics-the-morrigans-dream.html" target='_blank'>Horslips - THE MORRIGANS DREAM Lyrics</a></pre>

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About the forthcoming battle,
This piece is a dance tune called Old Noll's
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Songwriters: CARR, EAMON JOHN / DEVLIN, BARRY / FEAN, JOHN MARTIN RICHARD / LOCKHART, JAMES FRANCIS / O'CONNOR, CHARLES LESLIE

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