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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

Come all you gallant poacher lads that ramble void of care
That walk out on a moonlit night with your dog, you gun, your snare
The harmless hare and pheasant you have at your command
Not thinking on your last career upon Van Diemen’s Land

Twas poor Jack Brown from Glasgow, Will Guthrie and Munro
They were three daring poachers the country well did know
The keepers caught them hunting, all with their guns in hand
For thirteen years transported unto Van Dieman’s Land

The very day we landed upon that fatal shore
The settlers they came round us, some forty score or more
They herded us like cattle, sold us out of hand
And yolked us to the plough my boys to plough Van Dieman’s land

Although the poor of Scotland do labour and do toil
They’re robbed of every blessing and produce of the soil
Your proud imperious landlords, i-f you break their commands
They’ll send you on the British hulks to plough Van Dieman’s land

Come all you gallant poacher lads that ramble void of care
That walk out on a moonlit night with your dog, you gun, your snare
The harmless hare and pheasant you have at your command
Not thinking on your last career upon Van Diemen’s Land

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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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