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Wrapped Between Borders

from Borrowdale Johnny by Striding Edge

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'Wrapped between borders, you're freezing me out, Carlisle town'

In this chapter, Johnny leaves Lakeland for the Big City in the 1980s: A shared student-house, black and white images of the Falklands war flicker from the T.V., illuminating the dank walls with disturbing images: The sinking of the Belgrano, Housemates baying for 'Argie' blood. Johnny finds himself a man out of step with the times, in a country that's a stranger to him.

This song was written by Mike Willoughby, with some help from Steve Wharton, the album's art designer. It is based on Mike's experience of being a 17 year old, leaving home to become an art student in the 1980's.

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Wrapped Between Borders
 
Just turned 17 years
When I packed my bag for Carlisle town
Tramped through the Citadel, over the Eden
Looking for a place to go to ground
Settled on lodgings for 12 pounds a week
With the Maxwells of Warwick Square
The old man was wheezing as me and his missus
We shook for half-board and fare
 
I'm a stranger on the town
In the sodium light as I wander the night
Where the Solway winds howl round
Warwick Street, Botchergate
Hard to relate what I've found
Wrapped between borders, you're keeping me warm,
Carlisle Town
 
We had to move to Nicholas Street
When the old man took a turn for the worse
Me and my flat-mates moved lock, stock and barrel
But their friendship seemed more like a curse
T.V. glares in a darkened room
Warships blaze in the sea
Now they're drinking and a hating and a cursing the 'Argies'
This country's a stranger to me
 
I'm a stranger on the town
In the sodium light as I wander the night
Where the Solway winds howl round
Warwick Street, Botchergate
Hard to relate what I've found
Trapped between borders, you're freezing me out
Carlisle Town
Now I'm with you again
20 years later in the cold autumn rain
I'm still writing my old stranger's song
Wrapped between borders, this town and this song will go on.
Carlisle town!

A Striding Edge song written by Mike Willoughby p+c 2007

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from Borrowdale Johnny, released September 21, 2007
A Striding Edge song written by Mike Willoughby p+c 2007

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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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