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Birdsong

from Continuum by Carol Fieldhouse

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BIRDSONG: Travelling on the motorway through the former battlefields of Northern France near Verdun I was suddenly aware of a lark singing above the roar of the motorway. The wide, green river valley of vineyards and small villages was fringed on its escarpments with war memorials to darker days and lives lost

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BIRDSONG by Carol Fieldhouse

And the bird sang, so sweetly,
Like a soft balm for weary spirits floating on the Summer air
And the bird sang and sang its song with wonder
For a cloudless sky and a peaceful patch of rolling ground

What could I know of that time of war?
Just a glimpse, an echo, beyond the sun
What could I know of loved lives lost?
Never, ever, home

The hills rang to the toll of distant bell towers
And my heart sang for the beauty of the fields
But my soul wept for a tragedy now fading
As Nature heals the wounds that time regrets

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from Continuum, released June 10, 2022
Carol Fieldhouse: harmonium, harp, vocals | Chris Pepper: percussion, keyboards John McCusker: whistle

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Carol Fieldhouse Derbyshire Dales District, UK

After years rooted in Folk and Early Music, I discovered my musical homeland as a songwriter in 2008. My debut album linen, produced by Boo Hewerdine and recorded by engineer Chris Pepper, was Celtic Music Radio’s Album of the Week in 2016.

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