Enjoy this performance of Kender Mourning Song. It originally appeared in Leaves from the Inn of the Last Home, released in 1987. Buy Leaves from the Inn of the Last Home: https://www.drivethrurpg.com/product/309152/Leaves-from-the-Inn-of-the-Last-Home?affiliate_id=50797

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Vocals performed by juanvocalsmusic.Cello performed by akitogoto.

About Kender Mourning Song

This piece should be simple, clean, and poignant. A straight tone works better than a vibrato, especially if this song is done in character. There should be confusion and the feeling of unanswered questions in this piece. The cello should be eloquent and emotional on the solo passage before the last verse, literally a cry of pain. Sustained unhappiness is peculiar for a kender, and therefore should be played to the hilt. The break (looks like an apostrophe above the melody line) before the last phrase is important and should be created like a silent sigh.

Lyrics

Always before, the spring returned.The bright world in its cycle spunin air and flowers, grass and fern,assured and cradled by the sun.

Always before, you could explainthe turning darkness of the earth,and how that dark embraced the rain,and gave the ferns and flowers birth.

Already I forget those things,and how a vein of gold survivesthe mining of a thousand springs,the seasons of a thousand lives.Now winter is my memory,now autumn, now the summer light,so every spring from now will beanother season in tonight.