Where I Stand

from Feather by Edgelarks: Phillip Henry and Hannah Martin

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This song was inspired by the Ogham stones, in particular the Roborough Down stone. Ogham is an Irish runic alphabet, and most Ogham stones are found in Ireland; but the spread of stones with Ogham inscriptions through Wales and into the Westcountry is testament to ancient migration routes. The Roborough stone is special because it commemorates two people. The first inscription, in Ogham, is the name "Enabarras", whereas the second much longer inscription is in Latin, and appears to commemorate his son, saying, "Of Dobunnus the smith, son of Enabarras". It has been suggested that Enabarras was likely a first generation Irish immigrant, while his son, having grown up here, no longer considered Irish to be his first language. The movement of peoples is as old as the stones, and the words 'wind rush' are not used accidentally.

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Where I stand, I mark two lives, two sets of hands
In two tongues, a line for a father, a line for his son

A father who travelled far
A son born of this land
The wind rushes through their lives
And leaves them where I stand

For work he came, or for love, or for hunger, or for loss, or for gain
And his son made old worlds new, and made two worlds one

A modern tale, through our heavy-built borders they are moving still
Yet all the same, it's for 2000 thousand years I've remembered their names
Always the same, the only constant in life is change

For life is an old song, an old song that must be sung
Telling the old tune, of a father and his son

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from Feather, released May 17, 2019
H. Martin

Phil - vocals, National guitar
Hannah - vocals, banjo

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Edgelarks fly in on the tailwind of BBC award winning duo Phillip Henry and Hannah Martin. Combining soulful original songwriting with deep folk roots and influences as diverse as Indian classical and American blues, this duo produce a sound like no other. ... more

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