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The Living Water - An Cuan Beò

from Message in a Bottle by Ingrid Henderson

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This song tries to encapsulate the multi faceted nature of the sea and our relationship with it through the years. Memories of fishing boom times throughout my youth in Mallaig, family connections to mailboat runs, boatbuilders, the fishing trade, the tragic loss of the Silvery Sea, ancient understanding of ocean currents, emigration and finally questioning what lasting affect we have left upon our seas.

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1. You gave us hope, sent news afar, St kind mail boats heart la'en. They tracked their course from Hiort to Sail, through secret pathways came.

Chorus:
Muir traigh, Muir làn, you swirl and dance, you break and crash upon the shore. Your constant motion, rise and fall, gun sgurr, a' chuan mhòr.

2. We all felt gain in coastal towns, The boatman, drifter, fisher wives They plied their trades and reaped rewards But who knows to what cost.
3. For all you give, you take away. White wings they scattered kin afar. Our gillean grinn, false story fed, sailed blindly off to war.

4. You stand those mountains on their heads, your power and grandeur hides your pain. You’ve robbed us of our comrades dear and tears they run to rain

Refrain: My soul is drawn once more to you, be it joyful sad or catch a breath, My soul is drawn once more to you, a' chuan mhòr.

5 Your bounty, beauty half explored,  your stacks & cliffs, they’re fading now. Wasting, tumbling to the shore. Perhaps your final bow?

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from Message in a Bottle, released September 17, 2021
Composed Ingrid Henderson

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Ingrid Henderson Scotland, UK

Harper, pianist and presenter, Ingrid Henderson is a ”musician of quite outstanding calibre, a virtuoso in terms of sensibility....”

She has nearly thirty years experience performing, teaching and recording traditional music appearing with the likes of Cliar, Glenfinnan Ceilidh Band & in duos with singer Margaret Stewart and with her own fiddling hubby, Iain MacFarlane.
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