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High Water and We'll All Lye Together

from Borrowdale Johnny by Striding Edge

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'Infant, youth and man, I gaze from where I stand, into the Kent by Waterside.'

Armistice day 1932. Johnny, a boy in a flat cap, stands by Waterside in Kendal, gazing across the waters of the river Kent. On the father bank stands the rusting hulk of a World War One British tank. He contemplates the course of the river winding, rising and then receding through his birth town, a course as convoluted as the town's history.

Little does he know that the tide of war, and a further twist of his and the town's destiny, lies only seven years away: A firece tide that will carry him out to the sea on the river..

A song inspired by a Kenneth Shepherd photograph 'Whither Now', Armistice Day, Kendal, November 1932.

lyrics

High Water
 
High up on the rock face, up on Simon's Seat
Springing from the veins, of the fellside bleak
Swollen by the waters of a hundred streams
River Kent is rising
Rumbles through our dreams
Draws us out to sea
Calling us to turn the tide
 
Infant, youth and man
I gaze from where I stand
Into the Kent by Waterside
 
A flagstone made to measure this high watermark
The 'Auld Grey Town' has risen an hour before the dark
Snuff and wool and leather, cloth of Kendal Green
The river now receding
Taunts me in it's slide
Wounds a youthfull pride
Calling us to turn the tide
 
Infant, youth and man
I gaze from where I stand
Into the Kent by Waterside
 
Armistice day morning down by Waterside
Johnny casts his gaze beyond the waves that glide
On Miller bank, the fog like gun smoke in the trees
The husk of a tank once hollow
Haunts our waking dream
A grayscale nightmare scene
Calling us to turn the tide
Infant, youth and man
I gaze from where I stand
Into the Kent by Waterside
 
A Striding Edge song written by Mike Willoughby p+c 2007

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from Borrowdale Johnny, released September 21, 2007
High Water (Willoughby)/We'll All Lye Together (trad.)

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Striding Edge are now into their nineteenth year of playing ceilidh dances and concerts across Cumbria, North Lancashire and beyond.

As ever, their combination of thrilling traditional music and clear and concise dance calling is proving a huge hit with audiences:

"The ceilidh was a roaring success, loved by everyone young and old, your calling was spot on and the band were brilliant!"
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