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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THE WITCH OF THE
WESTMORLAND
Archie Fisher PRS / MCPS
lyrics
Pale was the wounded knight, that bore the rowan shield,
And loud and clear were the raven’s cries as he feasted on the field.
Saying “Green moss and heather bands will never staunch the flood,
There’s none but the Witch o’ the Westmorland can save thy dear life’s blood”.
Oh and turn, turn your stallion’s head, ‘til his red mane flies in the wind,
And the rider of the moon goes by and the bright star falls behind,
And clear was the paley moon when shadow passed him by,
And below the hill was the brightest star, when he heard the owlet cry.
Saying “why do you ride this way and wherefore came you here?”
“I seek the Witch o’ the Westmorland that dwells by the winding mere.
It’s weary by the Ullswater and misty the brake fern way,
And through the cleft of the Kirkstone pass where the winding waters lay.
Saying, “lie down my bridled hound and rest ye my good grey hawk”
And thee my steed will graze thy fill for I must dismount and walk,
But come when you hear my horn, and answer swift the call,
For I fear when the sun will rise this morn you’ll serve me best of all”.
And it’s down to the waters brim he’s borne the rowan shield,
And the golden rod he has cast in to see what the lake might yield,
And wet rose she from the lake, and fast and fleet went she,
One half the form of a maiden fair with a jet-black mare’s body.
And loud, long and shrill he blew ‘til his steed was by his side,
High overhead the grey hawk flew and swiftly he did ride.
Saying, “course well my brindled hound and fetch me the jet black mare,
And stoop and strike my good grey hawk and bring me the maiden fair”.
And she said “pray sheath thy silvery sword, lay down thy rowan shield,
For I see by the briny blood that flows you’ve been wounded on the field”,
And she stood in a gown of velvet blue, bound round with a silver chain,
She’s kissed his pale lips once and twice and three times round again.
She’s bound his wounds with the golden rod, full fast in her arms he lay,
And he has risen whole and sound with the sun high in the day.
And she said “ride with your brindled hound, and your good grey hawk in hand,
For there’s none can harm the knight whose lain with the Witch
o’ the Westmorland,
No there’s none can harm the knight whose lain with the Witch
o’ the Westmoreland.
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