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Wassailing With The Mari Lwyd

from Yuleogy by Sloar+Mordor

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Me: Why is there a creepy skeleton horse outside?
The Welsh: It's Christmas!
Me; But why?
The Welsh: CHRISTMAS!!
Me: But -
Mari Lwyd: :cue this song:

lyrics

The skull of a horse
Is outside my door
It's eyes are a rollin'
With terrible need

The beautiful mare
Maliciously stares
As Punch and Judy
Gnash with their teeth

The skeletal grin
It begs to come in
It pogos and thrashes
Outside my door

I know once it enters
My stores for the winter
Will disappear down throats
Of men that she brings

Mari Lwyd chase my family
While your party laughs and swills
Mari Lwyd break my crockery
Every year when leaves are still

The pretty mare
She sings ancient songs
She thirsts and she hungers
For songs of your own

Clad in maid's bunting
The mare goes a hunting
For feasts of the living
From beyond the grave

Mari Lwyd chase my family
While your party laughs and swills
Mari Lwyd break my crockery
Every year when leaves are still

Ride, Rhiannon
Ride, Pryderi
Ride the skies
Beyond the pain
The ghosts of earth
Shall never touch you
Ride the skies
By here, my dears
Ride Rhiannon
Ride Pryderi
Ride the skies
Beyond the pain
The ghosts of earth
Shall never touch you
Ride the skies
By here, my dears

Ride the skies by here, my dears
Ride the skies by here, my dears

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from Yuleogy, released December 15, 2021
Matt Florence
Squid Tiberius Widget

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Sloar+Mordor Wisconsin

Once upon a time in the late 1980s, at Shell Lake Jazz Camp, a trumpet player and a bassist decided they liked making music together.

Then they lost touch for 25 years.

Thanks to the magic of the internet, they found each other again and are once again making music together. ... more

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