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R-101
05:33
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It should never have happened,
It should never have died,
No nation mourning, no wives who cried...
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2. |
Ellan Vannin
04:47
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3. |
Weardale Miner
05:58
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From the ground to the foundry,
To the barrel of the gun,
It was Weardale Lead that had them on the run.
Now the fighting’s done, and old Boney’s gone,
So the Weardale mines are gone, gone,
The Weardale mines are gone.
We broke the rock ‘til our fingers bled
To feed the old Brown Bess with lead
We moulded, shaped, tiled and cast
Fine musket balls, strong so fast.
Of finest Weardale Lead
There was work for us all, good times at last,
Work for the war, for Weardale ore,
Break and wash, sift and sort
How could we know it was all for naught?
Our finest Weardale Lead
‘C’mon boys!’ Came the clarion call,
‘Make shot for the lads, make the enemy fall’.
But when the battle’s done, and the work gone too,
Tell me, what’s a man to do?
Now the Army says they don’t need us any more
So how does a man bring food to the door?
The mines close down, the miners out
on their ear in the cold, cast out to shout
Buy our finest Weardale Lead
They rail and roar, for justice call
While the rich get richer and the miners fall
For the mines are done and work’s gone too,
Tell me what’s a man to do?
So my dear lad, tell me if you can
How to feed our bairns, or farm the land
You’ll have to go out on the moors by night
And find the bonny moorhen, by pale moonlight
Instead of finest Weardale Lead
The bishop will curse and the lord may rail
But we need food, and ther’es none to say
That we didn’t pay our part, never gave our due
Tell me what’s a man to do?
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4. |
Leaving of Liverpool
05:20
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5. |
All Around My Hat
05:05
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6. |
Juliet
06:23
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Juliet:
Not fourteen summers have I known
No lovers that I knew
The world that I enter now with you,
Is bright and new.
An arbour of the rarest blooms,
Sweet garden of delight.
The sweetest scent for me by far,
Bourne on the wings of night.
Romeo:
What’s Montague, not hand nor foot,
Not arm, nor face, nor part,
I must find some other name,
To call my heart.
A rose by any other name,
Is still a flower sweet.
By what light, what sound, what flame,
Makes my heart miss a beat?
Both:
Romeo, oh Romeo;
Where are you now?
Why does my heart beat faster now?
Than nature should allow.
Romeo:
But soft what light yonder breaks,
Is Juliet, is sun?
Come fair Sun and kill this moon,
For her dark work is done.
I would be her gloved hand,
To each and be her part.
What says she now?
I’ll know somehow, the secrets of her heart.
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7. |
Longstone
04:19
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From four of the clock, they were cast on Harcar Rock,
While the storm was blowing free.
By the Longstone Light, nine souls that night,
Looking for a rescue from the sea.
They say that Longstone Lighthouse,
was a hard bleak place to be.
William and his family called that place home,
and shone a friendly light on the sea.
With sons and wife and daughter, he let his lamp burn bright.
daughter Grace by his side constantly,
they shone a friendly light on the sea.
One Stormy night in September,
the Forfarshire sailed for Dundee.
But the boiler pipes they burst, Captain Humble feared the worst,
and turned his ship for the lee
But his ship fell foul on Big Harcar, a rock so sharp and proud.
broken into halves, nine souls on the farnes,
at the mercy of the storm and the sea
Through the glass on the top of the lighthouse,
Grace Darling and her father kept a watch.
Waiting for the waves and the wind to drop,
so they might set out with the cob.
No job for a girl cried her mother: no chance, no hope, no prayer.
Grace set her jaw, bent her back to the oar,
to bring nine souls back ashore
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8. |
Sam Hall
04:55
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9. |
The Voice
05:15
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10. |
A Space on a Stone
05:40
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There used to be names, there used to be days,
There used to be words, that told our tales.
But it's all worn down, by the wind and the waves
Now the time and the tide,
Has wiped us away, away from here, from today.
Oh blow me away, blow me away
Ferry me I pray, ‘cross sky and spray
Blow me away, and I’ll be no more
Forever known,
By a space on a stone.
I was John McBride, lay down in ’75
I left my farm behind, to lie beside my bride.
They say it wasn’t easy, they never knew how hard
to farm the land without her at my side.
They say it was the storm, they say it was the sea
I’m William Knox, that’s how the world knew me
I rode the lifeboat, off the beach to the sea
And that was the last, they ever saw of me
Elizabeth Young, and her sister Clare,
One moment here, and the next nowhere.
Disease it took them, they said it was a shame
And now we know, but their fading name.
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11. |
The Wrecker's Prayer
06:20
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Keep us from the rocks and the rising tide.
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12. |
Rake Down the Moon
05:31
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Rake Down the Moon,
Rake Down the Moon,
Rake Down the Moon me boys
While the Excise Men ride by.
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13. |
The Skye Boat Song
05:13
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Speed bonnie boat like a bird on the wing
Onward the sailors cry.
Carry the lad that's born to be king
Over the sea to Skye
Loud the wind howls
Loud the waves roar
Thunderclaps rend the air
Baffled our foes
Stand by the shore
Follow they will not dare
Speed bonnie boat like a bird on the wing
Onward the sailors cry.
Carry the lad that's born to be king
Over the sea to Skye
Many's the lad fought on that day
Well the claymore did wield
When the night came
Silently lain
Dead on Colloden field
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Fool's Gold UK
Fool's Gold is Carol and Steve Robson. They're based in the North East of the UK, and present multimedia performances all over the UK. Live shows are just that: no tapes or backing. The recordings take that a bit further...
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