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The Masterharper of Pern CD

Robinton's Whistle Tune I

The Duty Song

The Masterharper's Ball

Golden Egg of Faranth I -- lyrics below

Fighting Thread

Dragon Lady

The Question Song

Robinton's Dream

Golden Egg of Faranth II -- lyrics below

Nonsuch

Fire-Lizard

Golden Egg of Faranth III -- lyrics below

Lessa's Ride

Robinton's Whistle Tune II

March of the Wings

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Sunset's Gold CD

Song for Petiron

Sweet Sea (My Nightly Craft)

Gather Day

The Little Queen

Sunset's Gold

Breeke's Cry -- lyrics below

Run!

Four Hundred Turns

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Golden Egg of Faranth I, II, III

By the Golden Egg of Faranth,
by the Weyrwoman, wise and true,
Breed a flight of Bronze and Brown wings,
Breed a flight of Green and Blue,
Breed riders, strong and daring,
Dragon-loving, born as hatched,
Flight of hundreds soaring skyward,
Man and dragon fully matched.

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By the teaching of the Harpers,
Healer, fisherman and smith,
From the chambers of the craft-halls,
Forge our destiny in myth.
Raise a glass in praise of weavers,
Give the Lord Holders their due,
And in all things trust the weyrfolk
For their cause is just and true.

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From the distant, burning Red Star,
Shining strands of silver Thread-
Heed the warning of the Star Stones;
Hear the whispers of the dead.
Hail the dragons and their riders,
Perched on high in lofty weyrs.
Watch the skies while Pern lies sleeping;
Learn the lessons of the years.

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Brekke's Cry

[chorus]

Don't leave me alone!

A cry in the night

Of anguish heart-striking

Of soul-killing fright.

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Awakened in darkness

Bursting with thoughts not our own

Choking, burning, falling, dying.

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[chorus]

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Live for my living

Or else I must die.

Live for my living,

The world heard that cry.

Live! Live!

The world heard that cry.

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[chorus]

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Don't leave me alone!

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Wind Blossom's Song

A thousand voices keen at night;

A thousand voices wail;

A thousand voices cry in fright;

A thousand voices fail.

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You followed them, young healer lass,

'Till they could not be seen.

A thousand dragons made their loss

A bridge 'tween you and me.

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And in the cold and darkest night

A single voice is heard.

A single voice, both clear and bright;

It says a single word.

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That word is what you now must say

To open up the door

In Benden Weyr to lead the way

To all my healing lore.

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It's little I can give to you

To save both Weyr and Hold.

It's little I can offer you

Who paid with dragon gold.

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Dragonman, Dragonman

Dragonman, dragonman,

Between thee and thine,

Share me that glimpse of love

Greater than mine.

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Mating Song

Rise in glory,
Bronze and gold.
Dive entwined,
Enhance the Hold.

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Count three months and more
And five heated weeks,
A day of glory and
In a month who seeks?

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A strand of silver
In the sky...
With heat, all quickens
And all times fly.

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Red Star Passes

Seas boil and mountains move,

Sands heat, dragons prove

Red Star passes.

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Stones piles and fires burn,

Green withers, arm Pern.

Guard all passes.

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Star Stone watch, scan sky.

Ready the Weyrs, all riders fly;

Red Star Passes.

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Star Stone Song

The Finger points
At an eye blood-red.
Alert the Weyrs
To sear the Thread.

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The Watch-Wher Song

Watch-wher, watch-wher,

In your lair,

Watch well, watch-wher!

Who goes there?

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Welcome Home Song

We're glad you're home
We're glad you've come
We welcome you
With heart and voice
And hope you'll never leave.

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Unnamed 1

The Hold is barred,
The Hall is bare.
And men vanish.

The soil is barren,
The rock is bald.
All hope banish.

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Unnamed 2

Who wills,
Can.
Who tries,
Does.
Who loves,
Lives.

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Unnamed 3

Speak softly to my lizard fair
Nor raise your hand to me.
For they are quick to take offense
And quicker to champion me.

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Unnamed 4

A heart that's true in harper blue
makes song from heart's own fire,
and though betrayed, is not afraid:
in danger, leaps up higher.

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No world is free of minstrelsy,
nor noise, nor rage, nor sorrow.
A harper must discharge his trust
before he asks to borrow.

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My Harper Hall is free to all
who serve with song and playing.
But you who'd hide your song inside
are very sadly straying.

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Will you withdraw beyond the law,
lie safely in your slumber,
while dangers shake your world awake
and Death makes up his number?

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Did harper here betray those dear
he'd feel more than my tongue.
If place you'd earn, you'd better learn
more music than you've sung.

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For if you die, while safe you lie
halled in your selfish bone,
no chant will come, no harper drum,
and you'll lie long alone.

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Get up, take heart--go, make a start,
sing out the truth you come for.
Then when you die, your heart may fly
to halls we have no name for.