Chords for Loreena McKennitt - rare 1991 interview!!

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[Em] _ _ _ _ _ The title of your new record, The Visit, [Ab] is more than just a title, isn't it?
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[Ab] Yes, it embodies a few things that I've been _ [G] mulling over for several years.
One [Eb] being that I've often felt that the creative impulse is the kind of visit
_ [Ab] where an energy that sort of embodies your body [Eb] or your skill and you [B] spin it out.
_ _ _ _ Because it's hard [E] to really understand how that [N] creative impulse happens. _
_ _ _ It's a visit also in [Eb] terms of _ _ [Gb] going back to the earlier [Ab] influences of the Celts,
_ particularly their ancestors who came from Middle to [G] Eastern [D] Europe.
Also it's a play on the whole concept that this earthly experience is a bit of a visit.
And I suppose that taps into [C] some of the beliefs of earlier cultures,
or maybe not only earlier [Am] cultures, there are a number of cultures [C] today
that _ _ _ are connected quite strongly to the concept of reincarnation.
And [N] the Celts, for example, they felt that perhaps some of their [Em] ancestors
were [Abm] _
reborn into the trees or into salmon or into [C] the raven.
And the wonderful upshot of that kind of belief [E] system
is that there is a profound respect for all the life [G] around them.
Through the [Em] river the world runs [G] by
To Mani _ [D] Chawood come I
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And up and [Gbm] down the people go
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Gazing [Am] where the lilies _ [Bm]
blow
Round an [Gbm] island there and below
[Bm] The island of Shemal
I read a headline [E] that referred to you as [Ab] witchy. _
_ _ _ _ Just ask my band on a _ bad rehearsal day. _ _ _
Or, I mean, that's the negative side of witchy.
I like to [A] think it's kind of more the, _ _ [Fm] _ _
_ [N] well, the mischievous [Ab] side of witchy.
I [A] worked on a project called The Burning Times for the National Film Board,
and it was a documentary film which [G] explored _ a period of [B] time in Europe
when women were burned as witches
and trying to understand the whole [A] _ _ concept of a lot of the folklore
as well as the medicine which _ _ [Ab] was gotten from herbs.
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_ So they dispensed all of that,
but it sort of got manipulated and twisted through the course of time. _
But [G] because of the [C] _ earth religion connection to that whole [Ab] _
_ _ _ _ culture,
[Db] that's [Ab] definitely something that I connect very strongly with.
And [Db] I think there are elements of that reemerging
[G] even within the environmental [A] movements of [F] today.
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_ [G] It was good until you came down the note.
We're just going to roll back to that _ first guitar arpeggio
where that bubble _ [Cm] _
dissipates. _ _ _ _ _ _
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[F] Yeah?
That'd be fine.
_ _ This scene is Spain in the [Cm] universe. _ _ _
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I feel I'm just embarking upon [G] _ _ a line of so-called work,
but it's not work, it's an extension of who I am and what I am
and things that I believe very strongly.
So that music isn't a career, it's not kind of a pastime,
or it's not a hobby.
[E] _ _ [A] And because of the whole earth, [Am] _ environmental, _ [B] historical,
_ _ folkloric, mythological connections that I bring to the music,
that there are these threads that many people are drawn [E] to.
Does part of that [Bm] make you nervous?
Does it make me nervous?
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[Ab] _ _ _ _ _ [Abm] Only in so far as that [Eb] people would look to me
as _ being any kind of an authority on it.
I [G] don't see myself as any kind of authority.
_ _ [Gb] Critic.
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[Eb] See, that's _ _ exactly_
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