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Turtle Dove

from A Seed Of Gold by The Rosie Hood Band

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We found this sweet parting song in Robyn’s Great Auntie Jenny’s copy of The Seeds of Love and thought it paired really well with The Swallow. I chose a few favourite verses and wrote a lilting new tune for it.

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It’s fare you well my own true love
It’s fare you well a while
If I go away, I will come again
If I go ten thousand miles my dear
If I go ten thousand miles

Ten thousand miles it is too far
To leave me here alone
Here I may lie, lament and cry
You cannot hear me mourn my dear
You cannot hear me mourn

Oh don’t you see that turtle dove
It sits upon the rowan tree
Lamenting for her own true love
As I lament for thee my dear
As I lament for thee

Oh I am like the turtle dove
Who flies from tree to tree
And as he waits for his own mate
So I will wait for thee my dear
So I will wait for thee

When you see them remember me
And bear me in your mind
And be not like the weather vane
That changes with the wind my dear
That changes with the wind

The crow that is so black my dear
Shall change his plume to white
If ever I prove false to thee
The day shall turn to night my dear
The day shall turn to night

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from A Seed Of Gold, released November 3, 2023

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Rosie Hood Sheffield, UK

Rosie Hood is known for her strong, pure voice and captivating performances as well as her poetic writing and honest interpretations of traditional songs. A BBC Performing Arts Fellow and Horizon Folk Award nominee, Rosie's first solo album The Beautiful & The Actual, a collection of old and new folk songs was described by The Guardian as “poetic class” ****. ... more

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