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lyrics
Downfalling
My mother’s hair was jet black when I left home,
When I returned it was lily-white,
For six long years not a penny for my pains,
And still this story repeats again.
We sailed to France on the Duke of Argyle,
We waved goodbye, I’d be gone a long while,
And we arrived hungry and tired,
But ready to face the coming tide.
Chorus: The bombs are falling down
The bombs are falling down
The bombs are falling down
They’re falling
Down oh.
At home waiting my family my wife,
Wondering the fate of their dear soldier’s life,
And these words on this matchbox can’t tell of my strife,
But I’ll be brave.
I’ll be brave.
I lay wounded, my friend next to me,
He said, “Steve, we’re finished”
His head falls to the ground.
He never spoke again to me.
He never spoke again to anyone.
My mother’s hair was jet black when I left home,
When I returned it was lily-white,
For six long years not a penny for my pains,
And still this story repeats again.
credits
from If We Turn Away,
released February 25, 2022
Written by Heg Brignall. Performed and arranged by Julu Irvine and Heg Brignall. Recorded by Lukas Drinkwater at Polyphonic Recording. Violin by Aaron Catlow. Mastered by Ian Stephenson. Artwork by Chloe Birnie.
Darling Charms - Would've thought NK would have learned her lesson after the Port 'n' Brandy 😘 xx
This whole EP is bangin' btw. Beautiful work xx Gill Loomes-Quinn
These are very familiar songs. Somehow these arrangements, and their performance, beckon you to hear them as if for the first time. A ‘classic’ version might mean one first heard decades ago. In this case it means one that will surely still be heard decades hence. duncandenis
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