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On Your Shore
02:57
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CHORUS:
Take me into your company
Welcome me on your shore
I will take no more than I give
of that rest assured
‘But what can you give?’
Asked a voice from on high
‘All that I have ever been
and a glimmer of hope in my eye’
{Chorus}
‘But what will you eat?’
Cried a voice from the street
Let me toil within your fields
and together we’ll harvest the wheat
{Chorus}
‘But where will you live?’
Asked a voice from inside
Let me build a house that isn’t too tall
and isn’t too wide
{Chorus}
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2. |
The Trees They Grow High
03:02
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The trees they grow high
The leaves they do grow green
Many is the time my true love I’ve seen
Many an hour I watched him all alone
He’s young but he’s daily growing
Father dear father you’ve done me great wrong
You’ve married me to a boy who is too young
I’m twice twelve and he is but fourteen
He’s young but he’s daily growing
Daughter dear daughter I’ve done you no wrong
I’ve married you to a great lord’s son
He’ll make a lord for you to wait upon
He’s young but he’s daily growning
Father dear father if you see fit
We’ll send him to college for one year yet
I’ll tie blue ribbons all around his head
To let the maidens know that he’s married
One day I was looking o’er my father’s castle wall
I spied the boys a-playing with a ball
My one true love was the flower of them all
He’s young but he’s daily growing
At the age of fourteen he was a married man
At the age of fifteen the father of a son
At the age of sixteen his grave it was green
And death had put an end to his growing
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3. |
Discontent
03:03
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How do you wear your discontent?
Does it hang on a fine silver chain?
Does it sparkle and shine like your fourth glass of wine
Which you drink on the porch in the rain?
How do you wear your discontent?
Does it go with your red leather shoes?
Does it hum baritone as you talk on the phone
Crooning those workaday blues?
Chorus: Dissatisfaction suits you
Better than you thought it ever could
There’s no glory in contentment’s lazy calm
Let the itch become the balm
Put it on, put it on.
How do you wear your discontent?
Does it drag as you walk down the street?
Does it stick in the cracks of sidewalks and train tracks
Or get brittle and stale in the heat?
{Chorus}
How do you wear your discontent?
Does it peek through the slit in your dress?
Does it draw hungry looks from policemen and crooks?
Turn your self-righteous ‘no’ into ‘yes’?
{Chorus}
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4. |
Maple Seed
03:49
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I know that you’re sorry
Your sorrow fills the room
It isn’t me, it isn’t you
It’s what we stand on
I see that you’re sorry
Sorry’s not enough
Love is blind, life is tough
We move on
Chorus: What I am, what I need
Is the tenderest of breezes
Maple seed make your way to the ground
Who we are and what will be
Will emerge within its season
Maple seed make your way to the ground
I can see you’re hurting
Don’t feel too good myself
Put on your shoes let’s go to the woods
And use our lungs
I see that you’re hurting
Your hurt is not my own
Let me be strong as you’ve been strong
Our time has come
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5. |
As if Eden
02:50
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I saw something from the mountaintop today
Didn't look good, didn't look good
Everything that blossoms has to rot one day
It's a simple truth, a simple truth
Chorus: Kiss me as if Eden were
just a glimmer
in your tender mama's eye
Don't forget to live before you die
Glaciers ease themselves into a warming sea
It's down to you, it's down to me
Gather all you love and calm your trembling hands
Forget what you know, learn what you can
{Chorus}
All hands on deck there's no time left
to wonder what we could have done
We sail beneath an angry sun
Violent seas are rising
Man and beast and creeping thing
Stand humbled before the fountain of the great deep
{Chorus}
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Samantha Twigg Johnson Oxford, UK
Originally from Washington, DC, Samantha Twigg has sung in dark corners and on bright stages in the US, New Zealand, The Philippines, Spain and the UK. In addition to the flamenco guitar, she plays the Puerto Rican cuatro, a ten-stringed instrument she bought under the influence of heavy anaesthetics after a root canal in Chicago. She now lives in Oxford. ... more
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