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Blackbirds & Thrushes

from Mind the Gap by Rebsie Fairholm

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This song is also sometimes called Hares on the Mountain, a traditional folk song to which I've given the psychedelic treatment. My parents bought me a really beautiful electric guitar when I was 13 and this was the first time I'd used it on one of my songs. I also used an electric mandolin with lashings of string-squeak.

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Oh Sally my dear, it's you I'd be kissing
Oh Sally my dear, it's you I'd be kissing
She smiled and replied you don't know what you're missing

Oh Sally my dear, I wish I could bed you
Oh Sally my dear, I wish I could bed you
She smiled and replied then you'd say I'd misled you

If all the young girls were hares on the mountain
If all the young girls were hares on the mountain
How many young men would take guns and go hunting

If young girls could sing like blackbirds and thrushes
If young girls could sing like blackbirds and thrushes
How many young men would go beating the bushes

If all the young girls were like rushes a-growing
If all the young girls were like rushes a-growing
How many young men would take scythes and go mowing

If all the young girls were fish in the water
If all the young girls were fish in the water
How many young men would undress and swim after

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from Mind the Gap, released July 1, 2007
(traditional, arranged by Rebsie Fairholm)

Rebsie: vocals, electric guitar, electric mandolin, piano and synths, shamanic silver branch

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Rebsie Fairholm Cheltenham, UK

Haunting psych-folk inspired by the English landscape and the spirits of the ancestors. I play 12-string guitar, harp, piano, cornamuse, whistle and whatever else comes to hand. Now working full time with Marvin B Naylor.

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