The CD comes in a folded card case with a front cover designed by Graham Vincent and inside a drawing by Sam Church. On the back is a full track list with timings of the sets. The card case is inside a cellobag which helps protect it and is a lot easier to get into than shrink-wrap!
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High Germany (Traditional song arranged by Mitchell and Vincent)
“Oh Polly love, oh Polly, the rout has now begun,
And we must go a-marching to the beating of the drum.
Go dress yourself all in your best and come along with me;
I'll take you to the cruel war in High Germany.”
“Oh Billy love, oh Billy, come list what I do say,
My feet they are so tender, I cannot march away.
And besides, my dearest Billy, I am with child by thee,
Not fitted for the cruel war in High Germany.”
“I'll buy for you a horse, my love, and on it you shall ride
And all my delight shall be a-riding by your side.
We'll stop at every alehouse and drink when we are dry,
We'll be true to one another, get married by and by.”
Oh, cursed be them cruel wars that ever they should rise
And out of Merry England press many a man like-wise.
They pressed my true love from me, like-wise my brothers three,
And sent them to the cruel wars in High Germany.
INSTRUMENTAL
No, my friends I do not value nor my foes I do not fear,
Now my love has left me I wander far and near.
And when my baby it is born and a-smiling on my knee
I'll think on lovely Billy in High Germany.
“Oh Polly love, oh Polly, the rout has now be-gun,
And we must go a-marching to the beating of the drum.
Go dress yourself all in your best and come along with me;
I'll take you to the cruel war in High Germany.”
credits
from CIRCLING THE SQUARE,
released August 1, 2016
Traditional arranged by Mitchell and Vincent.
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