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Moving Away

from Borrowdale Johnny by Striding Edge

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'Moving away, and I'd beg you for an hour if I had the power to make you stay.'

Not all departures from Lakeland are quite as euphoric. In this 21st century tale, the girl in the song leaves her boyfriend at the end of a long summer season working together in the kitchens and bars of South Lakeland, to go to college 'Down South'. The boyfriend sits drowning his sorrows, alone with his emptiness, in a traditionally soul-less bar in Bowness Bay,

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Moving Away

It gets lonely
Year in, year out in this dry-stone town
So slowly
The days draw in as the nights come down
Absent friends they stayed for the summer
To work in the kitchens and the bars
But now they've gone back South to college
I'm working the late-shift to the last
Moving, moving away
Moving, moving away
And I'd beg you for an hour if I had the power to make you stay
 
It was easy
A few short months and it felt like years
You lifted me
You turned my head and you soothed my fears
We'd swop split shifts or take a 'sickie'
To wander on Wallowbarrow hill
But now the crag face lies in shadow
I'm dreaming, as ever, of you still
 
Moving, moving away
Moving, moving away
And I'd beg you for an hour if I had the power to make you stay
 
It gets lonely
Year in, year out in this dry-stone town
So slowly
The days draw in as the nights come down
We go down town to drown our sorrow
Dance to Madonna at 'The Wheel'
I smile and flirt but keep my distance
Alone with this emptiness I feel
 
Moving, moving away
Moving, moving away
And I'd beg you for an hour if I had the power to make you stay
 
Striding Edge song written by Mike Willoughby c+p 2007

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from Borrowdale Johnny, released September 21, 2007
Song written by Mike Willoughby, based on his experience of growing up, living and working in Bowness and Windermere.

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Striding Edge Cumbria, UK

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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