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lyrics

In loving memory of Clara Bamforth
And Heidi, daughter of the above
Died April 5th 1897
Of Dirker, Marsden, aged seven months

We held her for fifteen minutes
Long enough to give her a name
And then a raven dressed in a white gown
Came and took her away

Does hope exist so it can be taken?
Does sweetness lie in a chord of death?
The mobile phone tower blinks on Pole Moor
She put the pale thing to her breast

Saw her transformed into a stranger
As she sat in the neon glow
Where she was I just couldn’t reach her
Something quietly got up to go

You carve inscriptions to make sure it happened
You give things names or they never were
Her mother said that there was a history
Both of her sisters hadn’t gone full term

You think to you it will never happen
And if you did, how could you live?
But these electric trams and buses
Built on the bones of tragedy

It’s so easy to think that nothing will change

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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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