Jenny's song

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My Jenny’s song is song that is always requested by the ghost of High Heart as payment in exchange for telling the Brotherhood Without Banners of her prophetic dreams.

It may be the same song that Robb Stark mentions to his mother about Jenny of Oldstones.

Arya heard the song when the brotherhood took her to High Heart for the first time. The men meet with the ghost of High Heart who requests her song in payment for her telling them of her dreams. The song is so soft and sad that Arya can only hear snatches of the words, though the tune is half familiar. Sansa would know it I bet, she thinks. [1]

When the brotherhood go to Hight Heart a second time Tom agains sings the song the dwarf woman. As he is singing she closes her eyes and rocks slowly back and forth, murmuring the words and crying. Thoros takes Arya firmly the hand and draws her aside, telling her

“Let her savour her song in peace. It is all she has left.” [2]

Tom of Sevenstreams may have been singing some lyrics of the song in Oldstones while the Brotherhood Without Banners waited for Merrett Frey to arrive with his brother’s ransom. The music is soft and sad,

High in the halls of the kings who are gone, Jenny would dance with her ghosts [3]

Tom accompanies the words with his woodharp.

Quotes

“She always makes me sing the same bloody song.” [1]

- Tom of Sevenstreams

“Oh, aye. My Jenny’s song. Is there any other?” [2]

- Ghost of High Heart

References and Notes

  1. 1.0 1.1 A Storm of Swords, Chapter 22, Arya IV, p 250.
  2. 2.0 2.1 A Storm of Swords, Chapter 43, Arya VIII, p 492.
  3. A Storm of Swords, Epilogue, p 920.