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Let No Man Steal Your Thyme

from Seven Star Green by Rebsie Fairholm

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Owing to some technical problems in mic'ing up my harp, I wasn't able to use it in these recording sessions. The 'harp' you hear here was constructed by Daniel, who also filled in the rest of the orchestration. This English folk song is an old favourite of mine and shows an early spirit of feminism among our ancestors. (Men? Clinging vines, the lot of 'em.)

lyrics

Come all you fair and tender girls
That flourish in your prime
Beware, beware, keep your garden fair
Let no man steal your thyme

For when your time it is past and gone
He'll care no more for you
And every place where your thyme was waste
Shall spread all o'er with rue

For a woman is a branchy tree
And man a clinging vine
And from her branches carelessly
He'll take what he can find

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from Seven Star Green, released August 1, 2009
(traditional, arranged by Daniel Staniforth and Rebsie Fairholm)

Rebsie: voice
Daniel: software orchestration

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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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