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My Love Farewell

from The Ties That Bind by Mawkin

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My Love Farewell / Judgement (Trad / Trad arr Mawkin)
A song stolen from Eliza Carthy who stole it from Jody Stetcher and Kate Brislin. We first heard Eliza sing it when we supported her at the now defunct Loughborough Festival. The tune is an old Swedish vocal tune first heard from the playing of the great Swedish clarinetist Esbjorn Wettermark learnt from Aisling Holmes in Sheffield.

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Oh my little honey, you know that I love you
There's nothing in this world that I love like I love you

To my love farewell, my land farewell
All a-marching away farewell

Oh my little honey, you don't do me better
I'll build me a boat and I'll float down the river

(To my love farewell, my land farewell
All a-marching away farewell) x2

Goin' down the road, road mighty muddy
Slippin' and a-slidin' and I can't walk steady
To my love farewell, my land farewell
All a-marching away farewell

Boat begins to rock, I begin to shiver
Oh my little honey, I'm a-floatin' down the river

(To my love farewell, my land farewell
We're all a-marching away farewell) X2

I had a wife, she was a weaver
She wouldn't weave and I wouldn't either

To my love farewell, my land farewell
We're all a-marching away farewell

So its goodbye wife, goodbye baby
Goodbye biscuits soaked in gravy

(To my love farewell, my land farewell
We're all a-marching away farewell) X3

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from The Ties That Bind, released July 20, 2015

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Folk rebels, Mawkin, fresh off the back of the three-times-BBC-Folk -Award nominated collaboration Mawkin:Causley, are now forging a bold new sound that strengthens their instrumental roots and embraces a new, exuberant exploration into the traditional folk canon. ... more

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