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Celeste Rochery - My Native Land (John Collie, 1856)

from águas brilhantes: 2018​-​2022 by fiffdimension

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From fiffdimension.bandcamp.com/album/poems-lyrics-in-the-scotch-dialect-1856
- this was the first track recorded for that project, by the poet John Collie's great-great-great-granddaughter

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MY native land, my native land, To sing thy praise I’ll try, For I nae ither garland have Around thy brow to tie. I winna sing of wars you’ve seen, Nor blood once on you shed; I winna sing the noble deeds Your gallant sons once did.

But I will of your mountains sing, Your caverns, and your glens; Where Solitude in all his pomp In mighty grandeur reigns. And I will of your valleys sing, And heathy knowes so fair, For beauty in her gayest charms Is ever lingering there.

That there are fairer lands on earth, I readin agree; But what are all those fairy elimes, Sweet home, compar’d with thee 2 Then, wheresoe’er I chance to stray, Or wheresoe’er I roam; I’ll ever long and wish for thee, My dear lov’d Scottish home.

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from águas brilhantes: 2018​-​2022, track released September 7, 2018
Celeste Rochery - acoustic guitar, vocal
John Collie (1834-1893) - lyrics

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fiffdimension Featherston, New Zealand

Outsider music from Aotearoa NZ and beyond, by Dave Edwards and collaborators (from 1856 to 2024).

Spans acoustic & electric noise, rock, folk, spoken word, postpunk, free jazz, gamelan, lo fi, electronica, & ethnomusicology.

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