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It Was Red & Gingerbread

by Nancy Kerr

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    Strictly limited edition of 500 7" vinyl, double A side single. It Was Red & Gingerbread by Nancy Kerr & The Sweet Visitor Band!

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1.
It Was Red 04:36
Well I've seen fires that split the summer Seen forests burning to rise again Sent from the sky to land asunder Your songs are turning tears to cooling rain I heard their rhythm, it was in the thunder It was heard at midnight and through the day Your catechism, my eyes of wonder That once had seen you could never look away Ch: You are the tune no one expected Unsung and unpredicted Like a dream in the night ahead I thought the moon It just reflected our silver light But when it rose up it was red No priest or templar ever told the future And if they could perhaps we'd never fall in love Well I'll repent if you're the preacher For your songs of gold and the moon above Ch As red as blood, as black as carrion Our muse is scattered on battered wings Bruised and bolder, the muse is older now And still she sings I've heard them say blood-moon's arising And this could be the end of all joys Well I can face that far horizon If the final chorus is in your voice Ch
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Gingerbread 05:17
You can see me anytime you need me Warm beyond a reason Night is on the wing And you could linger like a grind of ginger Making love a season Heating up the skin You could water me with tears of hunger Like the wheat in winter Pressed into a bed Like a handprint, flour upon a black dress White against the darkness Leavened into bread Ch: We are not our gravest deeds You are not your grieving For the bravest flower seeds As the birds are leaving As the thin glow of summer's death Will turn the leaves to red May the wind blow like a lover's breath Still warm as gingerbread Dreams are kneaded into walls and windows Sheltering our sorrows Dusted and adorned With the sweetness of some kind tomorrows Sugar's incompleteness Wrested into form Ch While the black sky spreads its myth of thunder That we labour under Reckoned by the dead These are crude thanks, charity and food banks For our harvest splendour Pepper for our bread Ch

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released December 4, 2015

Nancy Kerr - lead vocal and violin
Rowan Rheingans - violin, viola, banjo and vocals
James Fagan - guitars and vocals
Tim Yates - double bass, melodeon and vocals
Tom Wright - drums, guitars and vocals

Produced by Tom A Wright and Nancy Kerr
Photography by Elly Lucas

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Nancy Kerr Sheffield, UK

Folk Singer of the Year BBC Folk Awards 2015

"Outstanding chamber folk" (The Guardian) "Folk's Poet Laureate" (FRUK) "One of the UK’s foremost composers of modern folk and social commentary songs” (Royal Shakespeare Company).

Photo credits: James Fagan, Elly Lucas
Album design: Lizzy Doe
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