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Once I Was A Rose

from Bring Back Home by Ange Hardy

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I was great friends with a very elderly woman once. An artist in her youth, with an amazing sense of humour and the heart of a young girl. When she grew too old to live alone her family put her into assisted care where they visited every week... then every month... then every year.

I saw her whenever I could and as time marched on arthritis robbed her of the ability to draw, or turn the pages of a book.

Toward the end of her life she spoke to me of the overwhelming boredom that existed in the long hours of every day. This song is for her.

This is my "go and see your granny" song. A reminder to myself, as much as to anyone else, that life is too short not to make time for the people you love.

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Harsh are the winters, the evenings have drawn in. Home it is cold and my working day’s gone. Long are the hours for coming and going, home it is empty my patience is done.

Once I was a summertime, past time, long ago. Once I was a summertime, once I was a rose.

And slow are the winter days sitting and waiting. Fast were the finer days when I was young. Loud is the time piece my grandfather gave me, and I too like him one day soon will be gone.

Grown are my little ones, constant and working. Far are their homes from the place I am now. I was a daughter once, living and growing, and wishing my days past, I wish I’d slowed down.

Once I was a summertime, past time, long ago. Once I was a summertime, once I was a rose.

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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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