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This Old River

from This Old River by Jacob & Drinkwater

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This Old River

Nineteen- thirty- four Sir Alan Cobham’s flying circus came to Walton-le- Dale
Up on Cuerdale Hill you’d see the pilots faces as the planes went zooming by
In the blue summer sky
The skyline was dotted with smoky mill chimneys up on New Hall Lane
They’d say if you can’t see Pendle Hill that means it’s going to rain
The whole town was built on the boom back when cotton was king
Our poor ancestors toiled at the loom
Their poverty was a terrible thing

And this old river running through it all
I love to come back down here just to watch it roll
Through the years

In the soft evening light you’d here the choirs of corncrakes sing their songs unto the night
A lazy old breeze amongst the golden cornfields and the branches of the trees and in my memory
Down by Briggs’s Farm you’d hear the sweet willow warblers call
In the stillness of a sweet summer’s day
You’d bathe in the beauty of it all
You know this county invented engines and machines it held the whole world in its thrall
Sometimes when I gaze at these wondrous fields I wish we’d never bothered at all
Oh I wish we’d never bothered


And this old river running through it all
I love to come back down here just to watch it roll
Through the years
This old river running through it all
I love to come back down here just to watch it roll
Through the years
Through the years
Through the years

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from This Old River, released March 20, 2019

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On tour in UK April/May '22.

Jacob & Drinkwater have been called ‘stand out new Folk’ by BBC6 Music and ‘inventive and thrilling’ by R2 Magazine. Jacob's sweeping vocals never fail to captivate, delivering many a spine-tingling moment; the fluidity and precision of his finger-picking underpinned by Drinkwater's nimbly rhythmic double bass; the layers of depth a perfect counterfoil. ... more

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