I am a man upon the land I am Silkie in the sea and when I am in my own country my dwelling place is Skule Skerry and it shall come to pass on a Summer day when the sun shines hot on every stone I shall take my little son and I'll teach him for to swim in the foam and you will marry a gunner good and a proud good gunner I'm sure he'll be and he will go out on a May morning and he'll kill both my wee son and me