Name: The Cruel Mother
Duration: P00H08M33S
Description: . The Cruel Mother – trad arr. Twelve Thousand Days. .. who lived in york and who loved unwisely and murdered her own child. as with the cutty wren we had to perform this live to get away from its “standard” status. the performance was much longer; we ran out of tape …

The Cruel Mother

from From The Walled Garden by Twelve Thousand Days

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. The Cruel Mother – trad arr. Twelve Thousand Days. .. who lived in york and who loved unwisely and murdered her own child. as with the cutty wren we had to perform this live to get away from its “standard” status. the performance was much longer; we ran out of tape …

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. there was a woman of the north, o the rose & the Lyndsey o . she fell in love with her father's Clark - down by the Greenwood side o . he courted her for a year & and a day - then here the young man didi she betray . she leaned her back against thorn - there she had two pretty babes born . she took her penknife keen & sharp - she has stabbed them to the heart . a she was a walking to her father's hall - she saw three babes a playing at ball . babes o babes it's you I can tell - what kind of death do I have to die . seven long years a fish in the flood - seven years a bird in the wood . seven years a long in the warning bells - seven years in the flames of hell .

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from From The Walled Garden, released August 4, 2022
Alan Trench : Guitar, Dulcimer, Tin Whistle, Recorder, Keyboards, Glass Harp, Percussion, Bells [Tibetan], Flute [Moseño], E-Bow
Martyn Bates : Guitar, Tin Whistle, Vocals, Kalimba, Percussion, Tibetan Bells
plus, on Bass, String Machine – Stephen Robinson

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Martyn Bates UK

(For CD version write to Jerry at eyeless@eyelessingaza.com)
voice +acoustic w/songs/ e-guitars/kybd/ tape. Since 1980, Eyeless in Gaza, & since 2000, Twelve Thousand Days, Mick Harris etc. Knew stuff / Forgot stuff / cared too much / cared too little - perhaps. 2023:current band = Kodax Strophes … with Martyn reportedly "still longing for 'Christmas in my soul". kodaxstrophes.bandcamp.com ... more

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