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Song of the Seafoam
03:26
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I have found you on shifting sands.
Sands that suck me down lest I float with the flow.
Tides that take me to far off lands.
Drift with the swell. I close my eyes and go.
I float on the tide, and you stop me from slipping away.
I float on the tide.
You release me to go.
Although you never owned me anyway,
I'm a captive of your heart, I'd say.
I have saught you on Southern seas,
I have sung to you on the Isles of the old.
Far flung Isles of the utmost West.
Somehow seek you there, in the chill and the cold.
I float on the tide, and you stop me from slipping away.
I float on the tide.
You release me to go.
Although you never owned me anyway,
I'm a captive of your heart, I'd say.
Tie a ribbon wherer you lie.
As a standard for other lovers of life to try.
Call of seabirds I hear your name.
I sing into the wind and it sounds just the same.
We drifted on temperate winds, and we tethered our lines,
for a chance that our tunes would entwine,
with no measured design.
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The Ballad of Dunyvaig
04:07
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War, rebellion, battle, siege.
Taken, torn from liege to liege.
Ragged castle by the sea.
Tell to me your dark history.
What hides below the heather,
Sleeps within the soil,
Rests under the rock,
What hides below the heather,
Sleeps within the soil,
Rests under the stone?
Somerled, his army drove the Vikings down.
The Scottish lands and seas are ours again.
100 years or more Macdonald's lordship take.
The land is yours Queen Mary says to James.
Sir Lauchlin Mor McLeod, he ravaged Islay then.
He siezed Angus MacDonald down at Dunyvaig.
In 1598 a battle turned the table round.
Then James the VI decrees it, now it is the Crown's.
What hides below the heather,
Sleeps within the soil,
Rests under the rock,
What hides below the heather,
Sleeps within the soil,
Rests under the stone?
1610 is granted Bishop Knox of Isles.
But is then beseiged by Og, MacDonald's son.
Then taken by his brother Angus Og,
And cousin Col Ciotach, Colonsay his home.
Then just as soon, a royal charter grants the Isle.
Sir John Campbell of Cawdor's forces tale the pile.
And this part of the story links us to the past.
4 years ago the Campbell seal was found at last.
What hides below the heather,
Sleeps within the soil,
Rests under the rock,
What hides below the heather,
Sleeps within the soil,
Rests under the stone?
The ancient walls emerging, battered by the wars.
And then one fateful day a happy cry was heard.
We gather round the treasure.
What so can it be?
The seal which once was hidden for 4 centuries!
What hides below the heather,
Sleeps within the soil,
Rests under the rock,
What hides below the heather,
Sleeps within the soil,
Rests under the stone?
We come here to the castle every summer fine.
To seek the story true to reconnect the lives.
To looko beneath the soil and move away the stone.
What secrets do you keep, with cannon, turf and bone?
What hides below the heather,
Sleeps within the soil,
Rests under the rock,
What hides below the heather,
Sleeps within the soil,
Rests under the stone?
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Lunar Light
03:48
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Full moon rising.
There's no disguising, nor hiding, in this clear blue light.
Hello heartache.
Stay til the dawn breaks, or I do, for I still want you.
OoooOoooooooooooooooooooooo.
OoooooooooooOoooooooooooooo.
Ooooo Oooooo Ooo.
Moonlight shaows fall 'cross my timeline.
Must I define where my heartline lies.
Leave me a lock of your fair hair, where we can link our worlds,
Said the small brown Hare.
OoooOoooOoooooooooooooooooo.
OoooooooooooOoooooooooooooo.
Ooooo Oooooo Ooo.
Skylark rising,
Sing like your life hangs on a thread,
You climb,
Like the dawning sun.
Hello daybreak.
Grey pink to golden.
Light and behold the rising sun.
OoooOoooOoooooooooooooooooo.
OoooooooooooOoooooooooooooo.
Ooooo Oooooo Ooo.
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Daughter of the Water England, UK
"If this was an album instead of a 3 track EP it would be on the list for AOTY 22”
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"Daughter of the Water is a magical world weaved in reflections and gently rocking waves wrapped in banjo swells and ethereal vocals (folksong.co.uk)
"...Sarah’s voice is like the waves upon the beach, or the laughter of the deep. Reminds me of the flowers swinging in the dusk" (Ai-Da ROBOT).
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