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Blackmoorfoot

from I Felt The Valley Lifting by Toby Martin

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lyrics

My father asks what do I think abandoning my weaving
I say I’ve been up to Blackmoorfoot collecting peat-moss for the evening

My mother asks where have I been to get my skirt hems pushed round all widdershins
I say I’ve been to Blackmoorfoot to watch the summer moon a risin’

My friends stop me at the laneway gate I say ‘Do you have to ask it?
I’ve been up to Blackmoorfoot to gather mushrooms for my basket

My sister asks what have I done that evening when in bed
I say I’ve been up to Blackmoorfoot a countin Pheasant’s eggs

Enoch’s hammer came down on us

I wait for her at Blackmoorfoot behind the old bus shelter
Then we catch the bus back home while my mates all insult her

The clouds come in on Scapegoat Hill where they hung the martyrs
The past’s so close sometimes I feel it reaching out to touch us

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from I Felt The Valley Lifting, released September 10, 2021
The Colne Valley Players:
MohammadReza Beladi – dammam (drum), ney (flute) and neyanban (Iranian bagpipes)
George Harrington – drum kit
Julia Morgan – tin whistle, flute and backing vocals
Chris Ruffoni – bass, trumpets, piano and backing vocals
Sarah Tym – violin and Northumbrian bagpipes

Special guests:
‘Evil’ Graham Lee – Lap and pedal steel on Strange Fish and Pole Moor
Ada Martin – drone violin on Town Gossip

Engineered and mixed by Colin Elliot at Yellow Arch Studios, Sheffield
Mastered by Duncan Cowell, Sound Mastering, London

Design and cover photo by Cameron Emerson-Elliott

Special thanks to the University of Huddersfield for supporting and funding this recording.

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Toby Martin is a singer-songwriter from Sydney/Gadigal Australia, inspired by British Isles folk music and fuzzed out indie rock.

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