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Sisters Three

from Bring Back Home by Ange Hardy

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Sisters Three tells the story of a mother with three daughters: one with a good heart, one with an evil heart, and one with no heart at all.

Fearing the daughter with no heart the mother takes her to the woods and leaves her there to die. As the story plays out the evil daughter kills the good daughter before falling to her own untimely death. The abandoned daughter then cuts out half of the good heart and half of the evil heart before returning home.

This is a folk story about the origin of good and evil in the heart of mankind.

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Let the girls run into the woods and climb the tallest tree, for the ivy and the climbing vine shall bring you to your knees. My roots they hold this hill together entwined in soil and sod, wound between the gorse and heather and bound to stone and rock.

Young Mary she had children three of white and black and green. One was good and one was bad and one had woes unseen. Her youngest she was sweet and good, as pretty as a pearl. The second had a blackened heart, nasty little girl. The third she had no heart at all just emptiness within, she swore one day she’d find a way to steal one from her kin.

Young Mary she was pure and wise, loved her children three. She knew she had to take a life to stop her daughter green. She took her to the farmer’s land and on the blackest night she gave to her a final kiss, held her daughter tight. She tied her to the old oak tree and left her there to die. But the old oak tree it opened up and swallowed her alive.

It was for a while all well, and calm had settled on their lives. But the eldest of the two would on her mother’s doting thrive, she wished her sister dead and in an instant was compelled to take her sisters life and have her mother to herself. So the two of them together left and to the woods did go, but when they did arrive the eldest hung her with a rope.

She hung her sister from the tallest tree of solid oak, but before she could come down again the branch beneath them broke. And as both sisters fell quite dead and lifeless by the tree it opened up and drew them in, let the young girl free.

She cut out half the blackened heart and half the heart of white. She went back to her mother’s home and there lived out her life.

Let the girls run into the woods and climb the tallest tree, for the ivy and the climbing vine shall bring you to your knees. My roots they hold this hill together entwined in soil and sod, wound between the gorse and heather and bound to stone and rock

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from Bring Back Home, released November 28, 2017

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Ange Hardy England, UK

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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