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from Mind the Gap by Rebsie Fairholm

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The song is about someone who has to leave a place they love very dearly to go and fight in the first world war, and you don't know whether they come back or not. The line "Singing for a ring of roses" refers to falling shrapnel shells. The sound of these shells falling was a strangely cacophonic whining, and 'ring o' roses' was trench slang for multiple bullet or shrapnel wounds.

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I wish I could swim the river
(Singing for a ring of roses
Shrapnel beads are raindrops that fall)
I wish I could breathe it forever
(Clustering down from a glowering sky
Crater to crater the trespassers crawl)

Behind the green rimmed mirror
Postcards pinned to the wall
Come unstuck at the edges
And the night starts to fall

Changes are gathering quickly
In from the western sky
He watches through the round window
Fast moving clouds going by

The house murmurs on its foundations
As a passing train
Rattles the blue and white china
Above the noise of the rain

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from Mind the Gap, released July 1, 2007
(words and music by Rebsie Fairholm)

Rebsie: vocals, piano, lever harp, 12-string guitar
William Shaw: mandolin, violins

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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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