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Watersongs Live at the Glad Cafe

by Fergus McNeill

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Watersong (live at the Glad Cafe) 04:32
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You won’t recall where we first met I passed you on the Western steps The indifference of youth perhaps, you didn't notice me Our paths have crossed a thousand times Our tributaries intertwined The busyness of life perhaps, you couldn’t cease But when the world slowed, I -- still flowed and You found me when your need was strong When the doors closed, I -- still flowed and Finally, you heard my song You walked beside me every day I whispered all your woes away Lost in froth and foam, drowned in horseback brown You saw me fall in grey and gold Watched the life around me grow Baptised, I drew you so far down, and turned you round So when the world spins, and -- time thins, will You find me when my need is strong? And when clocks turn, and -- lights burn, still Listen to the water’s song? Will you still hear me? Will you still hear? When the world slowed, I -- still flowed and You found me when the need was strong But when the world spins, and – when time thins, still listen to the water’s song And when weary feet can walk no more I’ll carry you from bridge to shore In the ocean we begin again, times without end
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The Swell and the Sway (live at the Glad Cafe) 05:06
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The rain falls straight, not like the ocean spray The breeze still bites, but salt-less blows away The sun still shines, but only from the sky It casts no rainbows here through sea-mist to my eyes The gulls don’t chase; no selkies come my way I’m run aground, from sea to shore displaced They made me leave my love, they made her sail away Our time was done, they said, so lost on land I wait It feels so strange to stand on solid earth without the swell and sway Like a babe torn from the cradle, I just cannot rest this way I miss the ocean’s ebb and flow, how she carried me away I’m so weary of this harbour, I miss my love each day. I worked the line; Oban to Castlebay ‘Lord of the Isles’; she never missed a day Star of the fleet, pride of the Hebrides I know that boat the way she knows the sea It feels so strange to stand on solid earth… My tears fall straight, not like the ocean spray The breeze still bites but salt gets blown away.

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released December 14, 2021

Words and music by Fergus McNeill
Vocals and acoustic guitar by Fergus McNeill
Keyboards by Dan Brown
Electric guitar by James Mackay
Mastered by Jamie Savage

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Fergus McNeill Glasgow, UK

Fergus McNeill is an award-winning, singer-songwriter based in Glasgow. He has written a lot, and released a little, either in his own name or, in collaboration, via 'The Wayward Puritans'.

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