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I wrote this song on my way back from a folk festival last summer. Can't really tell you much about it without getting on my soap box. It goes with a story I tell called "Jean's Boarding Kennels" about a weird and wonderful woman who lives on the moors and sticks her neck out for waifs and strays. Thank goodness for her!

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Please Sir spare my daughter, leave her dancing on the hill?
Take me. I am older – I have danced, danced out my will.
I have marked the seasons I’ve sprung and bound the curlews (pheasants / owlets) call,
I have honoured those great mysteries long forgotten by you all.

Once my robes were stately as the cotton above my head,
Purer than the green, green grass in these bright fields where I’ve fed.
But you, you came and pillaged – for greed and gain tore up the earth,
And with rough hands left me ragged all despairing of your mirth.

I know where I’m going – four wheels has this Judas goat.
I’m going miles and miles and miles across the ocean. There the knife will meet my throat.
But from my Arian prison I will look out on you all ,
Singing sweet songs of forgiveness
You may one day heed a mother’s call.

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from The Handless Maiden's Daughter, released May 12, 2013
Ursula = Vocals, Ukulele
Martin Oram = Fiddle
Keith Donnelly = Percussion

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Ursula Holden Gill West Yorkshire, UK

In recent years, Ursula Holden Gill has emerged as one of the UK’s most innovative, up and coming Storyteller / Musicians. An insightful comedienne, with a voice “like molasses” Ursula has that rare gift of authenticity in her humour. Her style is largely influenced by folk tradition, 19th century music hall and original song – the culmination of which is something quite spellbinding! ... more

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