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What A Voice (Blackbird)

from Yarrow Acoustic Sessions by Lori Watson

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From the powerful singing of Lizzie Higgins. Betrayal, torment, loss, longing for a different reality. The swallow is free to love, the blackbird is blind, the long green grass is a death bed.

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What a voice, what a voice, what a voice I hear
It is like the voice o Will, ma dear
But if I had wings like the swallow high

I would clasp in the airms o ma Billy boy


For when my apron it hung low
My true love he followed through frost and snow

And noo ma apron it is tae ma shins
He passes me by and he ne’er spears in
 

It is up unto yon white hoose brae
He caad a strange girlie to his knee
An he’s telt her a tale that he yince telt me
 
There is a blackbird sits on yon tree
Some says it is blind and it canna see
Some say it is blind and it canna see
An so is my true love tae me

O I wish, I wish, I wish in vain

I wish I was a maid again

But a maid again I will never be
Til an aipple it grows on an orange tree
 
I wish, I wish that my babe was born
An smilin on some nurses knee
An for my sel tae be dead an gone
An a long green grass growing ower me

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from Yarrow Acoustic Sessions, released February 2, 2018
Traditional
Arranged by Lori Watson and Duncan Lyall
Vocal by Lori Watson
Keys and Moog by Duncan Lyall
Guitar by Steven Byrnes
Recorded and mixed by Duncan Lyall at Red Deer Studios
Mastered by Iain Hutchison at Glo Worm Studios

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