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Stroma
03:21
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Hamnavoe
03:06
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In the grass we burned them
Broken bones and rafters
The moon dancing in our eyes
Sleeping in the longship
Silver coins and riches
A salt wave washed against the hull
And we sing the songs our fathers did
And we carry all their hopes
Landed on a new land
Pushed shields to the castle
The sun danced along my axe
A soothsayer warned us homeward
No good will meet you here
Vultures feathers flood the floor
And we sing the songs our father did
And we carry all their hopes
They’ll write songs of us
The poet / The ravens
They’ll write songs of us
The mountains / The heavens
And we sing the songs our fathers did
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Christine's
03:34
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Honey Wine
03:16
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Made a stop on main street
Watch the horses graze
We’ll be ten towns gone by the end of day
Roamed the length of Scotland
Living where we sleep
Just your folks’ old trailer, and you and me.
We’re rolling
Rolling down the road
Worked a while as farmhands
Your family and I
It paid like shame but it felt like pride
Spent a week at John Boy’s
Horse tied to the gate
When the council called him traveller, they sent his kids away.
Cooking on cast-iron
Drinking honey wine
Swear the sweet sugar dulls the thought of crying
We’re rolling
Rolling down the road
Pitched up somewhere north-east
Said you couldn’t sleep
Kissing like your tongue’s a fire flitting through the trees
Sunrise seemed to ask me
Are you where you want to be?
Got me wondering thinking - can you ever be?
We’re rolling
Rolling down the road.
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5. |
The Drovers
03:07
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Keefa Hill
03:27
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God's Land
03:45
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Can you see the shore?
Maybe ours’ll be the next.
The water’s roar
The clouds turn over me
And we say goodbye
In prayer, in mourning, we say goodbye.
Under city skies
They held us like cattle
On the cold stone of the docks in Leith
Now the flags fly high as the captain sails us West
Some call it God’s Land
Some call it death
Some call it God’s Land, some call it death (x2)
It’s a single strand, all the time that’s left.
Some call it God’s Land, some call it death
Under dead of night
A storm brewed on the water
Our only shelter was the bay
But the anchor didn’t hold us
200 captives felt the hull give way.
And the rocks below
Sung so softly of the future
I found the cargo door
Tried to force it with my hand
But it stood firm against me
My knuckles bruised and bloodied
I heard a stranger pray for the other side
Some call it God’s Land, some call it death (x2)
It’s a single strand, all the time that’s left.
Some call it God’s Land, some call it death
47 men. All that lived from hundreds
The captain said: “Each slave alive will cost me coin”
So we turned and we fled to the village on the island
To carve a life
At night l think on them
How in life they were hunted
And I pray in death they’re free
For there’s nothing left
Save some some graves by the ocean where the cattle tread
Where land meets the sea
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Audrey's
03:42
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Vore Tullye
03:35
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Dirt & Bone
03:57
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Spent nineteen chasing railroads taking photos as we’d run;
Travelled round the powder river basin.
Slept on steel and cardboard as the carriage carried on.
FREE across your knuckles, I carved the ink.
Leaning out into the wind. The sun was lying low.
Both eyes closed, one arm stretching skyward.
I kind of think you knew one day the world would see you glow
Smiling, as I loaded up the camera.
I’m leaving here tomorrow
Early as the sunlight breaks
Until the leaves have left the laurel
The film’s on the final frame
I still see the day we met. The sky was wild and grey.
I’d been kicked outside for smoking.
We were young and stupid but we were free, not down and out.
Trying to catch the thunder on the mountain.
You looked me in the eye and said “I want to get in trouble.
I want to live my life, not pass it by.
I’m leaving here tomorrow
Early as the sunlight breaks
Until the leaves have left the laurel
The film’s on the final frame."
But In your eyes I swear was sorrow
Maybe freedom is a heavy chain.
I’m leaving here tomorrow
Early as the sunlight breaks.
Time stands still more these days
I spend it trying to save a little money
But these old photos of you and I
Make me want to live a brighter life.
One of these days we’ll fly right back down the line. One of these days. (x2)
I’ll be leaving here tomorrow (x2)
One of these days
I’ll be leaving here tomorrow
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11. |
Hard Times
03:56
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Gnoss Glasgow, UK
Glasgow based folk band.
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Gnoss: a dynamic four-piece of fiddle, flute, guitar and
bodhran that tackle energetic tune sets and driving folk song with a "maturity of ability many of a greater age will envy" (Living Tradition).
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