Gotta say it once again...

The Mediaeval Baebes make amazing music... I've heard all the balks at their name. I know. It's kinda weird. But don't let that stop you from checking it out. They should be praised and acclaimed by the general public rather than the Pussy Cat Dolls. They're the same kind of group, in that it's fairly large "girl group." But unlike the Pussy Cat Dolls, all the Mediaeval Baebes sing, well and in harmony too. Quite a few of them also play modern and archaic European instruments and they all sing in archaic English, Latin, and probably about a dozen other Indo-European languages from centuries past, many of them dead even in their native countries. Several of them write original tunes for the words that they find, which are all either traditional songs, or ancient or medieval poetry whose tunes have been lost to time if they ever had tunes to begin with. They are impressive. I recommend checking out their album "Mirabilis" to start, as you can't go wrong with it. Both of the songs below are on that album.

Here are the lyrics to one of their songs, done in a beautiful haunting, from-over-the-moors kind of tune:

Kilmeny
~18C Scottish~

Kilmeny, Kilmeny, where have you been?
Lang hae we sought baith holt and dean;
By burn, by ford, by greenwood tree,
Yet you are halesome and fair to see.

Kilmeny look'd up wi' lov'e'ly grace,
But nae was a smile seen on Kilmeny's face;
As still was her look, and as still was her e'e,
As the stillness that lay on the emerant lea,
Or the mist that sleeps on a waveless sea

Kilmeny...
Yet you are halesome and fair.

Kilmeny had been where the cock never crew,
Where rain never fell, and the wind never blew.
It seemed as the harp of the sky had rung,
And the airs of the heavens played round her tongue,

She spoke of the lovely forms she had seen,
And a land where sin had never been;
A land of love and a land of light,
Withouten sun, or moon, or night

The river swa'd a living stream,
The of light a pure and cloudless beam;
A land of vision, it would seem,
A still and everlasting dream.

Kilmeny...
Yet you are halesome and fair to see.
Kilmeny, Kilmeny, where have you been?
To a land that no mortal has ever seen.

Kilmeny, Kilmeny, where have you been?
Lang hae we sought baith holt and dean;
By burn, by ford, by greenwood tree,
Yet you are halesome and fair to see.

Kilmeny look'd up wi' lov'e'ly grace,
But nae was a smile seen on Kilmeny's face;
As still was her look, and as still was her e'e,
As the stillness that lay on the emerant lea,
Or the mist that sleeps on a waveless sea.

And here's one of their videos, the song "Temptasyon" is the Lord's Prayer in Cornish: