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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

Cauld winter was howlin o’er moor and oe’r mountain
And wild was the surge on the dark rolling sea
When I met about day break, a bonnie young lassie
Who asked me the road and the miles tae Dundee

Said I, “My young lassie, I canna weel tell ye
The road and the distance I canna weel gie
But if ye’ll permit me tae gang a wee bittie
I’ll show you the road and the miles tae Dundee”

At once she consented she gave me her arm
Ne’r a word did I speir wha the lassie might be
She appeared like an angel in feature and form
A she walked by my side on the road tae Dundee

At length, wi the howe o Strathmartine behind us
And the spires o the toon in full view we could see
She said “Gentle sir I can never forget ye
For showing me so far on the road tae Dundee

This ring and this purse take to show I am grateful
And some simple token I trust ye’ll gie me
And in times to come I’ll the laddie remember
That showed me the road and the miles tae Dundee

I took the gowd pin form the scarf on my bosom
And said, “Keep ye this in remembrance o me”
The bravely I kissed the sweet lips on the lassie
Ere I parted wi her on the road tae Dundee

So here’s tae the lassie - I ne’er can forget her-
And like ilka young laddie that’s listening to me
And never be sweer to convoy a young lassie
Though it’s only to show her the road tae Dundee

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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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