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End of Winter
04:47
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The Queen of Argyll
04:11
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Gentlemen it is my duty
To inform you of one beauty
Though I'd ask of you a favour
Not to seek her for a while
Though I own she is a creature
Of character and feature
No words can paint the picture
Of the queen of all Argyll
Chorus
And if you could have seen her there
Boys, if you had just been there
The swan was in her movement
And the morning in her smile
All the roses in the garden
They bow and ask for pardon
For not one could match the beauty
Of the Queen of all Argyll
On the evening that I mentioned
I passed with light intention
Through a part of our dear country
Known for beauty and for style
In a place of noble thinkers
Of scholars and great drinkers
But above them all for splendour
Shone the Queen of all Argyll
Chorus...
So my lads I needs must leave you
My intentions no' to grieve you
Nor indeed would I deceive you
Oh I'll see you in a while
I must find some way to gain her
To court her and attain her
I fear my heart's in danger
From the Queen of all Argyll
Chorus (twice)
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Beeswing
05:35
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I was nineteen when I came to town, They call it the summer of love
They were burning babies, burning flags, the hawks against the doves
I took a job in a steamie, down on Colline Street
And I fell in love with a laundry girl who was working next to me.
Ref :
She was a rare thing, as fine as a bee's wing
So fine a breath of wind might blow here away
She was a lost child, oh she was running wild
She said « as long as there's no price on love I'll stay ,
And you wouldn't want me any other way ».
Brown hair zig-zag around her face and look of half-surprise
Like a fox caught in the headlights, there was animal in her eyes.
She said « ho man, oh can't you see I'm not the factory kind.
If you don't take me out of here I'll surely lose my mind
Ref
And I said we might settle down, get a few acres dug
Fire burning in the hearth and babies on the rug
She said « oh man, you foolish man, it surely sounds like hell.
You might be lord of half the world, you 'll not own me as well ».
And we was drinking more in those days and tempers reached a pich
And like a fool I let her run with the rambling itch
Ref
Oh the last I heard she's sleeping rough back on the Derby beat
White horse in her hip pocket and wolfhound at her feet
And they say she even married once, a man called Romany Brown
But even a gypsy caravan was too much to settle her down
And they say her flower is faded now, hard weather and hard booze
But maybe that's just the price you pay for the chains you refuse
Ref2
She was a rare thing, as fine as a bee's wing
And I miss her more than ever word could say
If I could just tast all of her wildness now
If I could hold her in my arms today
Well I would not whant her any other way
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5. |
Suite Jutland
07:42
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Crooked Jack
03:42
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Come Irishmen both young and stern
With adventure in your soul
There are better ways to spend your days
Than in working down a hole
Refrain:
I was tall and true, all of 6 foot 2
But they broke me across the back
By a name I'm known and it's not my own
For they call me Crooked Jack
The ganger's blue-eyed pet was I
Big Jack could do no wrong
And the reason simply was because
I could work hard hours and long
Refrain:
I've seen men old before their time
Their faces drawn and gray
I never thought so soon would mine
Be lined the self same way
Refrain:
I've cursed the day that I went away
To work on the hydro dams
For sweat and tears or hopes and fears
Bound up in shuttering jams
Refrain:
They say that honest toil is good
For the spirit and the soul
But believe me boys it's for sweat and blood
That they want you down a hole
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8. |
Wave Sweeper
03:02
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Snoring Biddy
03:01
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Snoring Biddy
There was a man came from the west
He married a wife but she wasn’t the best, and they
called her Snoring Biddy, oh
Nick-a-nack-a-nick-a-nack-a norin no, and they called
her Snoring Biddy, oh
Nick-a-nack-a-nick-a-nack-a norin no, and they called
her Snoring Biddy, oh
She kept ten pigs beneath the bed
She never fed them but slept instead…
She had twelve hens and a cock
She left them alone under key and lock…
She had twelve cows to milk and tie
She slept in the bed ‘till they all went dry…
There was a man came from the west
He murdered his wife ‘cause she wasn’t the best…
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10. |
Selkie
05:11
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Swaying tide caress me
Seaweed, kelp and brine
Deep water, dark and heaving sea
No memories, just deep breathing
No name, no sense of time
A dark regret enfolds this shape of mine
Till the tide turns and the sea calls out once more
Till the tide turns and the sea calls out once more
My child I help you tightly
I nursed you and I sheltered you
Safe from harm and from all danger
I watched you grow so quickly
Deeply diving, swimming
Gliding past the fairy rock where our kin slumber
Refrain
The storm it raged for three days
We sheltered in the bay
Casting off our cauls
We slept undaunted
When I awoke I called you
No answer came to me
I searched and searched
While tears fell down unnumbered
Refrain
A Distant light was shining
On Eday’s lonely isle
Looking inside I saw you there a sleeping
On a bed of soft green ivy
A couple brimming with pride
Your Selkie skin was hanging by your side
Refrain
Swaying tide caress me
Seaweed, kelp and brine
Deep water, dark and heaving seas
Seven years a changeling
Seven years of trials
To see you coming back to me my child
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11. |
Suite Gone Fishing
05:39
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Keltas France
Sarah Tardien,
Antoine Petit,
Gabriel Maugey,
Clément Denis
Aurélien Prugnaud
Pierre-
Jean Muet
Invité:
Samuel Tardien
Thomas Ezekiel
AnnaDidymus
Nicolas Nardi
Rémi Hochard Nico Prugnaud
Thierry D'haussy
Michel Herblin
Therese Mager
Amandine Goudouneix
Patrick Tardien
Son:
Johann Boos
... more
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