Name: Far Over the Forth
Duration: P00H04M42S
Description: The song of a woman standing by the edge of the North Sea, with her bairn in her arms, awaiting the return of her beloved who has gone to America to seek a new home for them.

Far Over the Forth

from Death and the Woman by Sarah DeShields

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The song of a woman standing by the edge of the North Sea, with her bairn in her arms, awaiting the return of her beloved who has gone to America to seek a new home for them.

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Far over the Forth
I look to the North
But what is the North
Wi' it's heighlands tae me?
The South, nor the East
gie ease tae ma breast
It's a far foreign land
o'er the wild rollin sea

Ah the lang summer days
Among the heather and the bracken
And oh for the look
O' his bonny blue ee!
But wee did ah ken
That the wild western ocean
Would be rollin this day
Between ma laddie an me

We trysted our love
On the cairn on the mountain
The deer and the roe
Stood bridesmaidens tae me
And my love's trysting glass
Was the clear crystal fountain
What then was the world
Tae ma laddie an me?

So I'll look to the North
as I look o'er the Forth
But what is the North
Wi' it's heighlans tae me?
For the lad I loo best
Is far in the West
And he's seekin a hame
For ma bairnie an me

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from Death and the Woman, released September 25, 2020
Vocals - Sarah DeShields
Strings - Everett Hardin
Synths and Samples - Ben Loughran

Recorded, engineered and produced by Everett Hardin of Red Yeti Audio
Mastering by Carl Saff

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Sarah DeShields Boone, North Carolina

From the green rugged lands of Scotland, Sarah DeShields is a seasoned singer songwriter now living in the Appalachian Mountains of North Carolina

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