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The Hunter, The Prey

from Bring Back Home by Ange Hardy

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This song is the next chapter in the story of “Mother Willow Tree.” In that story a hunter was turned into a hare by a magical willow tree. This chapter tells the story of that hare, and the tragedy of being hunted (and eventually killed) by his own son.

This is a story about the passing down of tradition, and serves as a reminder and a warning that the choices of our children are moulded by our own actions.

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I am the hunter that hunted the prey, run away, run away! I am the hunter that hunted the prey. Now her spell does bind me.

For many a year I have waited in fear by the tree of my mother who changed me. From fighting and fears with gun and with spears to the shape of the young hare that claimed me.

Now I must run and hide from the guns in the hope that the hunter won’t find me. But when I’d begun I was mighty and young, I’d none but the strong wind behind me.

My blood it is thick and my heart it is quick and the life of a hunter defines me. For now I must sit with the wood and the stick and the hoping the forest will hide me.

I trod the land and chased the hare down it was here that my mother did take me.

My head to the ground for to hide from the hound, my mother a hare she did make me.

So what had become of the man and his gun who had sworn in a shot he would slay me? What of my son who aims as I run, how the tables have turned to betray me.

And then comes the shot, I fall to my lot and the spell of my mother it leaves me. I was the hunter that hunted the prey, now how my boy is to grieve me.

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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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