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I'll Be Wise

from Life in a Paper Boat by Kate Rusby

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    Life in a Paper Boat is the 14th solo album by Kate Rusby, released in October 2016.
    This CD includes the bonus track Big Brave Bill.

    The album features her signature mix of traditional and original songs, whilst marking a sonic development from previous releases: synthesizers and drum programming were used extensively throughout the record.

    Critics described the sonic change as "done in the best possible taste"
    You can get lost in the the soundscape.
    It's a modern context retaining all the elements of the folk tradition.

    The album's title track, written by Kate, was inspired by the European migrant crisis. In "Hunter Moon," another original, the moon is in love with the sun—and longingly tracks the sun's progress every day, from dawn to sunset.

    1 Benjamin Bowmaneer
    2 Hunter Moon
    3 The Ardent Shepherdess
    4 Life in a Paper Boat
    5 Only Desire What You Have
    6 Hundred Hearts
    7 The Mermaid
    8 Pace Egging Song
    9 The Witch of the Westmorland
    10 I'll be Wise
    11 Night Lament
    12 Big Brave Bill (bonus track on CD only)

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I’LL BE WISE
K Rusby PRS / MCPS

lyrics

There I see him,
I swore I’d walk on by him,
But I cannot resist and stop to eye him.

CHORUS
But when evening’s here, my heart it sighs,
And then I’m clear, tomorrow I’ll be wise.

And there I see him,
He smiles and I am near him,
My ears they long to hear him.

CHORUS

And there I see him,
I take a chance and then I’ve told him,
A tender glance and then I hold him.

CHORUS

But there I see him,
There and then I knew I miss him,
I take his hand and then I kiss him.

CHORUS

But there I see him,
Alas I was wrong how I perceived him,
Another girl she has received him,
Oh my poor heart almost believed him.

CHORUS

credits

from Life in a Paper Boat, released June 23, 2022
Vocal
Kate Rusby

Electric Tenor Guitar
Damien O’Kane

Double Bass
Duncan Lyall

Percussion & Drum Programming
Josh Clark

Fiddles
Donald Grant
Magnus Johnston

Viola
Triona Milne

Cello
Laura Anstee

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Kate Rusby England, UK

Forever proud to call herself a folk singer, Kate celebrates her own 50 yrs with her 'Established 1973' tours.

2022 marked 30 yrs as a professional musician with the album 30:Happy Returns

Hand Me Down (2020) was her highest-charting album.

Named in the Top 10 Folk Voices of the Century and a Mercury Prize in 1999

Yorkshire roots the carols in her Christmas tour. ... more

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