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On the Lighter
03:13
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Love is a golden boat
with silver sails and with silken ropes
Love may sail the sea
then down her anchor when she's in the quay.
Love is a golden boat
with silver sails and with silken ropes
Love may rest assured
Here on the Lighter, we are carefully moored
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John Barleycorn
03:19
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There were three men came out of the west,
Their fortunes for to try,
And these three men made a solemn vow,
John Barleycorn should die.
They ploughed, they sowed, they harrowed him in,
Throwed clods upon his head,
And these three man made a solemn vow,
John Barleycorn was dead.
Then they let him lie for a very long time
Till the rain from heaven did fall,
Then little old John sprung up his head,
And soon amazed them all.
They let him stand till midsummer
Till he looked both pale and wan,
And little old John he growed a long beard
And so became a man.
They hired men with the scythes so sharp
To cut him off at the knee,
They rolled him and tied him by the waist,
And served him most barbarously.
They hired men with the sharp pitchforks
Who pricked him to the heart,
And the loader he served him worse than that,
For he bound him to the cart.
They wheeled him round and round the field
Till they came unto a barn,
And there they made a solemn mow
of poor John Barleycorn.
They hired men with the crab-tree sticks
To cut him skin from bone,
And the miller he served him worse than that,
For he ground him between two stones.
Here's little old John in me nut-brown bowl,
And brandy in a glass;
And little old John in me nut-brown bowl
Proved the stronger man at last.
And the huntsman he cannot hunt the fox,
Nor loudly blow his horn,
And the tinker cannot mend the kettles or pots
Without a little drop of Barleycorn.
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The Mortemen Wreckers
01:47
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[this track is instrumental,
although there are some shouts of 'Ha!' and 'brrrrrrrah!']
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Oh the Barbary Pirates of Lundy, they came from the port of Sale
They came like the thunder to plunder their way
And Lundy was took in a day
The Barbary Pirates of Lundy, they came from the port of Sale
They came like the thunder to plunder their way
And cast Lundy asunder one day
The invader-in-chief was a dutchman, by the name of Jan Janszoon
His allegiance was true to the Sultan he knew
So Jan flew the ol’ crescent moon.
The king of a pirate republic from over yon Barbary coast
A convert and friend to North African men
Or whoever would pay him the most
The Barbary Pirates of Lundy, they came from the port of Sale
They came like the thunder to plunder their way
And cast Lundy asunder one day
With a total contempt for the English and a resentment of the French
Nobody had such a disdain for the Dutch
Not a slave not a King not a wench
Sackin’ the slavers of Bristol, or kidnapping people from Cork
They liv’d by the sword and by pistol’s reward
For five years controlling the shore
Were
The Barbary Pirates of Lundy, they came from the port of Sale,
They came like the thunder to plunder their way
And cast Lundy asunder one day
Now the island has all through the centuries been owned by some scoundrels and thieves,
By pirates and clergy and gentry unworthy
And either they die or they leaves,
Like
The Barbary Pirates of Lundy, they came from the port of Sale
They came like the thunder to plunder their way
And cast Lundy asunder one day
Lalalalalalalalalalalalalalalalala
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God in Nature
03:59
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There is a soul doth underlie The flower we pass unheeded by ;
The fire-drops on the plains of night Show more divinity than light ;
And not a blade of grass we see But hath its hidden mystery.
The silken web the spider weaves Amid the spring and autumn leaves,
Some busy spirit of the meads Will string with tiny silver beads ;
And there's a hand we cannot see, That strips each richly laden tree.
Go, mark the cloud that sails on high, Like phantom ship across the sky,
The bow of beauty stand and view — Who painted each ethereal hue ? —
And list the winds, those wild weird thingsWho plays upon their unseen strings ?
Go, stand upon the rocky shore, And hear the sad and ceaseless roar
Which cometh ever from the main, As one upon a couch of pain ;
Or where the river leaps along, A silver glory, and a song.
Who gives the colour to the flower ; The star its fire ; the sun its power ;
Their brightness to the cloud and bow ; And music to the river's flow ?
Give answer, thunder — Is it chance That makes thy solemn utterance ?
0 Thou, whom winds and waves obey, Where hast Thou made thy chariot- way ?
Oh, whisper from thy throne divine, And answer me, Thou God benign ;
Or teach thy servant, Lord, to see The universe is full of Thee.
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One evening as the sun went down
And the jungle fire was burning
Down the track came a hobo hikin'
And he said, "Boys, I'm not turning
I'm headed for a land that's far away
Beside the crystal fountains
So come with me, we'll go and see
The Big Rock Candy Mountains
In The Big Rock Candy Mountains
There's a land that's fair and bright
Where the handouts grow on bushes
And you sleep out every night
Where the boxcars all are empty
And the sun shines every day
On the birds and the bees and the cigarette trees
The lemonade springs where the bluebird sings
In The Big Rock Candy Mountains
In The Big Rock Candy Mountains
All the cops have wooden legs
And the bulldogs all have rubber teeth
And the hens lay soft-boiled eggs
The farmers' trees are full of fruit
And the barns are full of hay
Oh I'm bound to go where there ain't no snow
Where the rain don't fall, the wind don't blow
In The Big Rock Candy Mountains
In The Big Rock Candy Mountains
You never change your socks
And the little streams of alcohol
Come a-trickling down the rocks
The brakemen have to tip their hats
And the railroad bulls are blind
There's a lake of stew and of whiskey, too
You can paddle all around 'em in a big canoe
In The Big Rock Candy Mountains
In The Big Rock Candy Mountains
The jails are made of tin
And you can walk right out again
As soon as you are in
There ain't no short-handle shovels
No axes, saws or picks
I'm a-goin' to stay where you sleep all day
Where they hung the jerk that invented work
In The Big Rock Candy Mountains
I'll see you all this comin' fall
In the Big Rock Candy Mountains
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Rosie O'Malley
02:36
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Over the valley, the flowers display
Now the Spring is come our way
With Rosie O’Malley the fair queen of May
Welcome the Springtime today.
Born is the blossom and so too the lambs
All is green across the land
Bunnies a-burrow a home in the sand
Farmers are clapping their hands
Roam over barnacles, trek through the rains
Turning the wheel of the seasonal change;
Rolling to Barnstaple, coming our way,
Come Rosie the fair queen of May.
Over the Barnacles, under the sea
Rosie O’Malley come ye
Over to barnstaple into our dream
Turning the barren world green.
Come from the ocean to live in the ground
Down below in the mounds
Vein become river, brains become town
Mouth become a musical sound
Roaming through valley and trekking through rain
Turning the wheel of the seasonal change;
Rosie O’Malley oh fair queen of May
Bring us the Springtime today
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Should the mountains come to meet you;
Should the ocean give a wave;
Should the captain come to greet you;
Should the kestrel fly to the knave;
That's when to yield, that's when to yield
That's when to yield unto her.
Should the mighty gods of Ireland
come to meet you in the rain
in this town of evil tyrants
who are the cause of all their pain,
That's when to yield, thats when to yield,
That's when to yield unto them all.
That's when to yield, thats when to yield,
That's when to yield unto G*d.
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Roo England, UK
Roo writes and records his own songs. (and sometimes records old traditional songs).
Also, see Roo's painting and sculpture folio, online on his tumblr
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