Heather Alexander - Laddie Are Ya Workin'

Darkness hangin' in the sky in the morn
Moonlight dyin' as the sun is reborn
Crops are swayin' in an island of green
Hemp and teff and corn in between

CHORUS:
Cut her low, swing her 'round
Iron wire, tightly bound
Thresh the teff by the mornin' lark
Lie in her arms in the still of dark
Laddie are ya workin'?

Sunlight shinin' on the heart of the land
Crops are bendin' to the part Nature planned
Who'd be thinkin' that they'd end from that start
Cut and rent and shredded apart?

Storm clouds gather as the hands to the field
Raindrops scatter as the land's made to yield
Body separate from its fine golden head
Stalk and sheaf and chafe for a bed

Stars are twinklin' and the moon's risin' high
Dark is waitin' for the sunlight to die
Memories harken to the Emerald Isle
Sing and sleep and dream for a while

FINAL CHORUS:
Cut us low, swing us 'round
Iron shackles, tightly bound
Thresh your soul by the mornin' lark
Lie with your dreams in the dead of dark
Laddie, are ya' workin'?

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[ARP7777777]

I LOVE this SONG!!! Hurrah for Lions Blood!!!

[mashmusic11235]

It sounds like... standing in a field at the beginning of a thunderstorm. The cool and clean scent of rain, but the heated, charged feel of the electricity. Like being rocked to sleep by the thunder and jolted awake by the lightning.

That's what I hear in this song.

Maybe I'm crazier than I thought.

[Tharkun]

@VarangianCelt I guess that would explain the teff.

[threecards333]

@VarangianCelt

The book it is based on is also good.

[VarangianCelt]

Blue, it was written for another series.... Betsy, it's actually a work song, sung by Irish slaves on Moorish plantations, in an alternate history. The album is WELL worth getting.

[BetsyinTheSunshine]

@water14789 I'm from South Carolina originally and it reminds me of the old plantations back home. Charleston is so full of history that you can taste it on the breeze.

[water14789]

no matter how many times i hear this song, it never fails to paint me a picture of magic and the southern america before the war. the feeling of voodoo, mysteries and the rythm goes straight to my heart

perhaps it's silly of me, though...

[BlueReckless]

This is such an amazing post-Change song that I'm amazed S.M. Stirling hasn't appropriated it yet.