The debut album by Scottish and Irish folk band Folky MacFolk Face. It comes in a beautiful cardboard case with original artwork by James Reilly.
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lyrics
The Sands of Skalpsie Bay
Words & Music by Folky MacFolk Face (2018)
The fire had begun, before sunset was done,
At the end of the Sabbath day.
And I saw a sail, as I walked on the sand,
On the sand of Skalpsie Bay.
The ship drifted in, as the sun settled in,
For its starlit revelry.
It sailed for the light, that burned there so brightly,
It sailed in straight for me.
And then there she stood, with her shawl for a hood,
And a lamplight in her hand.
And as I stared at her, she let down her hair,
As fair as the Skalpsie sand.
Then she and the men, they looked at me then,
Unloaded their precious wares.
There were barrels and boxes, bottles and sacks,
From a distant, foreign land.
And then from the dunes, there raced the Dragoons,
Their murderous cries filled the air,
And as I ran to hide, I found by my side,
The girl with the sandy fair hair.
We ran from the shore, ‘till we could run no more,
And then we lay on the ground.
And as we listened there, still gasping for air,
We heard the most dreadful of sounds.
As under the moonlight, the starlight,
The sailors cried, “Away! Away!”
A lost fight, on the low tide,
On the sands of Skalpsie Bay.
We hid there till dawn, when the soldiers were gone,
And the birds did begin to cry.
And as I took her hand, as we walked on the sand,
She looked to the sky.
To pray for those men, who’d been there with her then,
But no words could she say.
Then she cried for them there, as the wind blew her fair hair,
On the sands of Skalpsie Bay.
Under the moonlight, the starlight,
The sailors cried, “Away! Away!”
A lost fight, on the low tide,
On the sands of Skalpsie Bay.
Now I was just fourteen and little had I seen,
Of love or woman kind.
And I had no plan, as I walked on that sand,
No cares nor troubles of mind.
And I’d always swore, I’d not break the law,
But for her, I’d steal the sun!
And though hard I tried, my love to hide,
Something was surely begun.
Under the moonlight, the starlight,
The sailors cried, “Away! Away!”
A lost fight, on the low tide,
On the sands of Skalpsie Bay.
Under the moonlight, the starlight,
The sailors cried, “Away! Away!”
A lost fight, on the low tide,
On the sands of Skalpsie Bay.
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