Words & Music: Karine Polwart This weary Earth we walk upon She will endure when we are gone While kingdoms come and kingdoms go Rivers run and rivers
The Good Years Words: Edwin Morgan Music: Karine Polwart Wherever you are You shall be my star Flashing near or smouldering far I am happy when I bask
Words & Music: Karine Polwart So is this the best that we can do? Oh I can think of better things - can't you? Yes I can think of better things That
Words & Music: Karine Polwart What if the news were nothing more than the secrets of seashells on the seashore whispering which way the wind will blow
Words & Music: Karine Polwart When your time on the mountain is over And you fall to the earth like a leaf It won't be enough these days to say sorry
Thou hast left me ever Jamie Thou hast left me ever Thou hast left me ever Jamie Thou hast left me ever Often hast thou sworn that death Should alone
There was a lady in the north You scarce would find her marrow She was courted by nine gentlemen An a plooboy lad fae Yarrow Well nine sat drinking at
Behold the hills and dales around Wi lowing flocks and herds abound The wanton kids and frisking lambs Gambol and dance aroond their dams The busy bee
Will ye go tae Flanders, my Mally O? Will ye go tae Flanders, my Mally O? We'll get wine and brandy, Sac and sugar candy, Will ye go tae Flanders, my
Queen Jane lay in labour full six days or more, Till the women grew weary and the midwives gave o'er. They sent for King Henry to come with great speed
Words & Music: Karine Polwart Nobody learns, seems like everybody turns to the screen To watch it pass but not to ask you "What does it mean?" We believed
When o'er the hill the eastern star Tells bughtin time is near, my jo, And owsen frae the furrow'd field Return sae dowf and weary O; Down by the burn
Words & Music: Karine Polwart Hope roams these streets at night It's looking for a light that gleams Inside our dreams and yearning It's burning behind
I?m gonna sail right out on the Atlantic I?m gonna catch me a fish that?s bigger than gigantic I?m gonna cook up a fine fish tea It will be like some
Words & Music: Karine Polwart I dreamt last night of a sorrowless field I saw you come back to me I dreamt last night of a sorrowless field You stood
Hey Daisy darling Don?t spread your arms so wide Why don?t you keep a little something inside? I know you think that hands are made for pulling us through
Words & Music: Karine Polwart I was born with a tongue that cannot lie and how it grieves me Each fleeting thought behind my eye just up and leaves me
You crafted and caressed her with a careful hand But the lady didn't understand And you riveted and plated her til morning But with a coil or a careless
