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    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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As I was walkin a alane
I heard a young man plead in vain
And he was following a lassie fair
Tae mak her his forever mair -o
Tae mak her his forever mair

The lad untae the lass did say
“O lassie please be mine the day”
She tossed her head and tae him said
“I’d ne’er loe ye though all men were dead - o
I’d ne’er loe ye though all men were dead”

He wrung his hands and tore his hair
But he couldna win thon lassie fair
He threatened he wid tak a knife
And end his ain and his sweet love’s life -o
And end his ain and his sweet love’s life

She seemed tae say wi her een sae blue
“O lad tae ye I couldna be true
I loe and lad an he loves me
Fur me tae loe ye wouldna be - o
Fur me tae loe ye wouldna be

An there he stood ablow a tree
And made his mind they baith must dee
He drew his knife and struck a blow
An reid her young heart’s blood did flow-o
An reid her young heart’s blood did flow

He plunged it deep in his ain breast
An fell by her tae his last rest
He twined his airms roon that lassie fair
An she was his forever mair-o
An she was his forever mair

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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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