The Salmon Song

The Salmon Song 
by Paul McCann

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kEr8-McGx2Y

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Down by the mountainside there lies a mossy Glen, 

just beyond the morning mist ,there around the bend , 

scattered dewdrops fell upon the green leaves of the Elm .

The child was so enchanted in a far off distant realm .

Somewhere there was a salmon there with a wealth of knowledge to share

for the one who could catch and taste the meat of that ancient salmon fair ....

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" Oh I'm too mystifying and all I want to do is swim , in this place I’m in ,

but they keep on trying , casting a line ,

but they don't know I'm too mystifying

and they keep on trying ,

but they’re just wasting their time ."....

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In that stream the salmon, he slowly swam about

as the warm rays of the morning sun behind the dark clouds came out

and it shone down on the grassy hills around that riverside ,

underneath the ripples there , that salmon tried to hide 

and the child called out to the salmon ... 

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"Won’t you kindly help me there for I’ve lost my way in the mountain mist 

and no one seems to care ."...

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" On no , not I ...

came the reply , 

...For I'm too mystifying" 

but the child started crying and said goodbye .

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The innocence of a child that fish would never know

so on that day that salmon he leapt out to say hello .

the child there by the water’s edge snatched the salmon in his hand.

The salmon cried out ..

"Let me go , its not what I had planned."

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The child he smiled and he walked away into the setting sun

and the next day that little child became the enlightened one ...

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"See I'm too mystifying but they keep on trying and they keep denying 

but they're wasting their time because I'm too mystifying .

Too mystifying . '

I'm too mystifying ...