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Smuggler's Song

from Down Among the Dead Men by Mawkin

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A SMUGGLERS SONG / DANIEL WRIGHTS HORNPIPE
(Lyrics: Rudyard Kipling, Melody Peter Bellamy / Trad. Arr: Lee Richardson & David Delarre)

A Rudyard Kipling poem set to music by the great traditional singer Peter Bellamy, Dave fell in love with this one as it’s about those unsuspecting characters in a village that get up to no good; It’s always the quiet ones you have to be wary of!

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If you wake at midnight, and hear a horse's feet,
Don't go drawing back the blinds, nor looking in the street
Them that asks no questions, isn't told no lies.

Watch the wall, my darling, while the Gentlemen go by!

Five-and-twenty ponies, trotting through the dark—
With brandy for the Parson and 'baccy for the Clerk.
Laces for a lady and letters for a spy,
Watch the wall, my darling, while the Gentlemen go by!

Running round the woodlump if you chance to find
Little barrels, Roped and tarred and full of brandy-wine;
Don't you shout to come and look, nor use 'em for your play;
Put the brushwood back again,—and they'll be gone next day!

If you meet King George's men, dressed in blue and red,
Be careful what you say, and mindful of what is said.
If they call you “pretty maid”, and chuck you 'neath the chin,
Don't you tell where no one is, nor yet where no one's been

If you do as you've been told, likely there's a chance
You'll be give a dainty doll, all the way from France,
With a cap of fancy lace, and a velvet hood—
A present from the Gentlemen, along for being good!

Five-and-twenty ponies, trotting through the dark—
Brandy for the Parson, 'baccy for the Clerk.
Them that asks no questions isn't told a lie—
So watch the wall, my darling, while the Gentlemen go by

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from Down Among the Dead Men, released October 5, 2018

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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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