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Goddess of the Southern Land

from Land and Legend by Spiral Dance

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This song began its life while Adrienne was studying her Bardic Grade with OBOD, a song that draws from both her life journey and spiritual journey. Constantly torn between the land of her parents and ancestors and the country of her birth, she had never really felt a strong sense of ‘belonging’ to any one place. Growing up as a first generation Australian, surrounded by stories and songs from the lands her blood Ancestors made it a struggle to feel connected to this beautiful country of Australia. Adrienne explained, “Feeling like a visitor for so many years, I wanted to create something to help my roots sink into the soil, I needed this Southern land to claim me…I called and she answered.”

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The spirits of this place have whispered me a song
With the north wind in the she-oak tree when the summer days are long
With the greening of the hills when the winter rains have come
And I know they’re telling me it’s to this land that I belong

Black crow flies on silent wings across an endless blue
Magpie carolls and boobook calls beneath the full spring moon
Faerie wren and his followers are dancing with the fae
And brother Kookaburra calls to the sky people to light the sun each day

Goddess of the Southern Land I’m yet to know your name
I’ve been travelling the pathways from where my ancestors came
But now I long to hear the songlines that are singing in your veins
Goddess of the Southern Land I’m yet to know your name

Rainbow serpent mother protector of the land
In the dreaming time awoke and moved her body across the sand
She brought the land to being, making hills and mountains rise
Filling water holes and rivers, she brought the earth to life

The wild Mount Lofty Ranges have given me my home
A place when the earth was young a mighty giant roamed
And travelled across the landscape between the rivers and the plain
His body formed the mountain range in the place where he was slain

Goddess of the Southern Land I’m yet to know your name
I’ve been travelling the pathways from where my ancestors came
But now I long to hear the songlines that are singing in your veins
Goddess of the Southern Land I’m yet to know your name

I know Brigid’s walking with me when the wild flowers have come
And the Wattle flowers into life the colour of the sun
In misty mountain bush land the smell of eucalyptus after rain
And bark fall signals that it’s time to celebrate Beltane

The magic of your dreamtime and the story of your land
There’s so much of your wildness that I’m yet to understand
And although I am a newcomer and my journey’s just begun
For your ancient voice has told me that the land and I are one

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from Land and Legend, released May 31, 2020
A. Piggott
Featuring backing vocals by Damh the Bard

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Spiral Dance Adelaide, Australia

With a combination of haunting vocals, intoxicating guitar riffs and groovy accordion lines, underpinned with potent bass and dynamic percussion, Spiral Dance presents an eclectic blend of traditional folk-rock with powerful self-penned songs and tunes. Rousing melodies intertwine with tales of Magick, myth and legend - music that will rock your ancestors! ... more

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