Nick's Jig

 

In gratitude to the Celtic music community which has afforded me so much pleasure, this gift on the spring feast of Beltane: a new song in jig time made out of the names of the counties of Ireland, the only nation on planet Earth named after a Goddess.

32 Irish Counties Jig

There's Wicklow and Wexford, Westmeath and Kilkenny,

Waterford, Sligo, Roscommon, Kildare.

Meath, Down, Armagh and Derry,

Donegal, Monaghan, Leitrim and Clare.

There's Carlow and Cavan, Cork, Tipperary,

Femanagh, Antrim, Longford and Tyrone.

Laois, Louth, Galway and Kerry,

Limerick, Offaly, Dublin, Mayo.

Ireland's thirty-two counties.

On Beltane
Quantum Tantra salutes Queen of May and Green Man.

On Beltane
Quantum Tantra honors Nature's wild intelligence
and the secret souls inside of things.

On Beltane
Quantum Tantra is doing its best
to experience Spinoza's Greatest Pleasure.

Celebrating Beltane in Glastonbury

On Beltane 

Nick Herbert appreciates his favorite teachers of Celtic lore 

especially musicians August O'Connor and Kim Fulton-Bennett,
novelists Frank Delaney and Morgan Llywelyn
and playwright and poet William Butler Yeats.