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  • Compact Disc (CD) + Digital Album

    If you pre-order the album you will receive tour copy or The Ledger as soon as we get them, sign them, put them in envelopes and post them.... at least 3 months before the official release date. The CD comes in a gatefold case with a 24 page colour booklet containing excerpts of the Norman Buchan "Scotsman" articles taken from the real ledger. All this designed by the wonderful Elly Lucas.

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lyrics

It fell about the Martinmas time, when the green leaves were doon fallin
That Sir John the Grahame from the West Countrie, fell in love wi Barbara Allan

He sent his men down through the town To the place where she was dwellin
O haste and come to ma maister dear, gin ye be Barbara Allan

O hooly, hooly she rose up, till she cam where he was lyin
An’ when she drew the curtains roun, Said “Young man I think ye’re dyin”

“I am sick and very very sick, an’ it’s a’ for Barbara Allan.”
“But the better for me ye ne’er shall be, though your heart’s blood were a-spillin.”

“Don’t you mind young man.” She said “When in the taven calling,
Ye made the toast gang roun and roun, but ye slighted Barbara Allan”

“A kiss o you would do me good, my bonnie Barbara Allan”
“But a kiss o me ye canna get, though your heart’s blood were a-spillin.”

He’s turned his face untae the wa’, for death was wi him dealin
Said ”Fare ye weel my kind friends a’, but be kind to Barbara Allan”

“Put in your han at my bedside, an there you’ll find a warran
Wi my gold watch an my prayer book, gie that to Barbara Allan”

“Put in your hand at my bedside an there you’ll find a warran.
An’ a napkin fu’l o’ my hairt’s blood, gie that to Barbara Allan”

Slowly, slowly rose she up, an’ slowly slowly left him
An’ sighing said, she couldna stay, since the death o life had reft him

She hadna gane a mile but ane, when she heard dead bell knellin
An ilka toll that the dead bell gae said woe to Barbara Allan

Then in came her faither dear said “Bonnie Barbara tak him”
“It’s time to bid me tak him noo, When you know his coffin’s makin”

In then cam her brother dear, said “Tak him Barbara tak him”
“It’s time to bid me tak him noo, now his grave-claes is a-makin”

Then in cam her sister dear, said “Bonnie Barbara tak him”
“It’s time to bid me tak him noo, when my hairt it is a-breakin”

“O Mother dear mak ma bed an mak it lang an narrow
My love has died for me the-day, I’ll die for him the-morrow.”

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from The Ledger, released May 1, 2020

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The Ledger: Gillian Frame & Findlay Napier Glasgow, UK

Every week in the late 50s and early 60s The Scotsman published a traditional Scottish folk song: lyrics and melody alongside an explanatory article. Findlay’s Grandfather, cut them out and pasted them into an old ledger. The Ledger is a time capsule of the fledgeling Scottish and UK folk scene
and is brought to life by Findlay Napier, Gillian Frame and
producer/multi-instrumentalist Mike Vass. ... more

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