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Bring Back Home

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This song was inspired by a conversation with David Milton, the Watchet Town Crier. This story feels like it might be part of the same tale that I started telling in Bare Foot Folk in the songs “Away with You Lassie”, “The Old Maiden” and “The Storm Has Now Begun". Perhaps this is the song of Nancy as she waited on the shore for Johnny to come home.

Ultimately this is a song about letting go, and making the most of the life that you have. As with "Away With You Lassie" it's about making the most of the hand you are dealt and knowing when it's time to move on.

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Four and twenty sailors hauled away the bonny bay, away the bonny bay and to the vast and rolling sea. Four and twenty sailors hauled away the bonny bay, all to fetch a find to bring back home.

Bring back home! Oh Johnny said to wait for me, he said that he’d not leave me on my own.

Bring back home! Too many tides have come and been, too many ships without him come and gone. Bring back home! Oh when will you come back to me? Oh Johnny will I always be alone? Bring back home.

Four and twenty sailors bound all o’er the briny sea, all o’er the briny sea for more than 20,000 leagues. Four and twenty sailors bound all o’er the briny sea, all to fetch a find to bring back home.

And four and twenty sailors heard a ringing of the bell, a ringing of the bell and the boatswain’s call to flee. Four and twenty sailors heard a ringing of the bell, all to fetch a find to bring back home.

Four and twenty sailors drowned beneath the blackened sway, beneath the blackened sway now all are lost unto the sea. Four and twenty sailors drowned beneath the blackened sway, all to fetch a find to bring back home.

Bring back home! Oh Johnny said to wait for me, he said that he’d not leave me on my own.

Bring back home! Too many tides have come and been, too many ships without him come and gone. Bring back home! Oh when will you come back to me? Oh Johnny will I always be alone? Bring back home.

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from Bring Back Home, released November 28, 2017

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Nominated for the Horizon Award for best emerging talent at the 2015 BBC Radio 2 Folk Awards, Ange Hardy is a folk singer, songwriter and recording artist from West Somerset, England. Ange performs original contemporary songs written in a traditional style with an emphasis on vocal harmony. ... more

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