Biddy Early Lyrics

Biddy Early was a healer

Folks came down from the North Country

South, and East, they came to see her

For a cure of their ailments three

Biddy Early had a bottle

Bright and blue, gifted from the Sidhe

When she'd look into the vial

She'd see the truth of her company

Called a witch and satanist

Heretic, hag, and a hedonist

Fear she'd cast an evil spell

For they did not understand her well.

Biddy Early was clairvoyant

'Knew a stranger at her front door

E'en before they came to greet her

She'd know why they were there at all.

Biddy Early wore a bandage

'Cross her brow, she would give the lot

Herbs for wounds and cures for women,

Men, and children, and beasts of God

Called a witch and satanist

Heretic, hag, and a hedonist

Fear she'd cast an evil spell

For they did not understand her well.

Biddy asked the Church to give her her last rights

And to return the bottle back to the fairy sprites

Into Kilbarron Lake where once it came

And no one can find the vial unto this day.

Called a witch and satanist

Heretic, hag, and a hedonist

Fear she'd cast an evil spell

For they did not understand her well

They did not understand her well

They did not understand her well