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*lyrics and Translations for Cave of Gold are on this page after bio. Cave of Gold takes you through many varieties of music, including, traditional Scottish Folk songs, contemporary songs by Scottish singer/songwriter Dougie MacLean and Irish songwriter Pat Gallagher, and Gaelic songs that date back centuries. Biography: Jennifer shelton Licko is a Celtic singer, songwriter, guitarist, keyboard player, and a premier Highland Dancer. Coming from North Carolina, by way of Florida, New York, Scotland, and Ireland; she’s a proud reflection of North Carolina's Scottish & Irish heritage. Jennifer Shelton’s studies as a Scottish dancer (Jo Moore-Kalat school of Scottish dance), Gaelic singer (University of Edinburgh), music educator (from East Carolina University) and her experiences living in Ireland & Scotland, have shaped her into a performing artist for the Celtic culture in NC. However, Jennifer Shelton has toured throughout the world with her music along side of performers such as Award winning Alasdair Fraser and Natalie Haas, Jimmy Carton, Rickey Godfrey and Brendan Grace. Daughter of a Music teacher and niece of a Scottish Highland Dance teacher, Jennifer Shelton received training in both music and dance from a young age. Upon graduating with a music degree from East Carolina University, Jennifer Shelton traveled to Scotland to study abroad on a Rotary International and a St. Andrews society of NC scholarship . She continued to spend summers in Scotland studying Gaelic music and Dance with singers such as Mairi Mac Innes, Ishbel MacAskill and Roddy Campbell. She then moved to Ireland where she lived in Tullaghan, Co. Leitrim performing at pubs all over Donegal, Sligo, and Leitrim. The years she spend playing music with Irish musicians (and for Irish audiences) brought her to a deeper understanding of the Irish ballads. Her passion and love for Ireland, the hardship it has endured as a country, and the sense of humor the Irish have kept through it all, is evident in Jennifer Shelton's performances. Currently, Jennifer Shelton is based out of Eastern North Carolina where she performs Celtic folk music & dance for children in Elementary schools, concerts, festivals, and pubs all over the state to celebrate North Carolina's Scottish & Irish heritage. LYRICS and TRANSLATIONS: Blacksmith-on the way! Peggy and the soldier- Come all ye lads of high renown, let me tell of a fair young maiden, As she arose one summer's morn, just to watch the soldiers parading. They looked so bold and they marched so gay, with their banners flying as the band did play. It caused lovely peggy to smile and say, I will go with my galant soldier Oh peggy dear the soldier said, "I pray don’t' act so unruly, For when I'm in some foreign land believe me you'll rue it surely What if in battle I should fall from the shot of an angry cannon ball And you so far from your daddy's hall, are you wise with your gallant soldier. I have 50 guines in safe store, likewise a heart that's bolder, I will give it all to the lad I adore, my brave undaunted soldier So don’t' say no but let me go, and together we'll face the feircest foe And pray kind providence should know of Peggy and her gallant soldier And when he saw she was so true, he could not stay hard hearted, He said, "my darling I'll mary you, and non but death shall part us. And when we're in some foreign land, I'll guide you my darling with my right hand And pray that God a friend might stand with Peggy and her gallant soldier Fear a' Bhata (The Boatman)- Traditional Translation: Recorded on Jennifer Licko's Cave of Gold Chorus: Boatman na ho ro eile, Boatman na ho ro eile, Boatman na ho ro eile, My blessings on you whereever you go. Verses: 1. Often I look from the highest hill, hopeing to see the boatman; will you come today, or will you come tomorrow? And if you come not at all, desolate I will be. 2. My heart is broken and crushed,