The Whole House Is Singing

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The Whole house is Singing (Alasdair Roberts, copyright info)
We love the image of a house filled with singing, and are happy to have had the chance to put our spin on such a well crafted song.

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I know she rose early, 'cause I heard her sweet singing
Echoing over the flowering heath
She gathered the willow, the elder and the linden
The holly and the ivy, twined into a wreath

Oh, the notes you are forming, I long to posses them
They leap from your tongue and ascend on the breeze
Had I risen early from bed in the morning
Then I would have hold of the notes you release

So she gave me the wreath, and she sang like a starling
With my fingers entwined in her feathery hair
But she pushed my away and said Alasdair darling
When a song's on the wind, it belongs to the air

So Polly she sings as she sits at her spinning wheel
And Mary she sings as she jumps with her rope
And Johnny he sings while fetching the herring creel
And Billy he sings as he rolls down the slope

The whole house is singing, the whole house is singing
The rafters are ringing and the timbers are thrown
The whole house is singing, the whole house is singing
The whole house is singing, and this is their song

We are stronger when the moon glows in the sky
And causes the tide to rise and to rise
And the weed that is carried upon the drawing foam
We will gather to bedeck our happy home

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from Headland, released April 27, 2023

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Kalos Tacoma, Washington

Kalos is made up of three innovative interpreters and composers of Celtic roots music: Eric McDonald, Ryan McKasson and Jeremiah McLane. They are masters of tradition who set the standard for traditional repertoire with an underlying drive and pulse charged with rhythmic electricity and integrity. ... more

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