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Sheltermore

from Sheltermore by Kevin Adams

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Based on the memories of David Bodley, who grew up on a farm which was swallowed up by the new city of Milton Keynes. Field names can be very poetic.
[This version is an mp3 demo, so apologies for the quality. I couldn't play it now, so this is as good as it gets.]

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Sheltermore
(David Bodley’s Song)
words & music: Kevin Adams

My father farmed these fields
When horses drew the plough
And I would sit upon a stool
To milk a cow.

The sheep on Sheltermore
The cows on Second Ground
The pigs and poultry in the yard
The years turn round

A tractor shining new
To plough on Sheltermore
To leave the farm hands free to go
To fight a war.

My father left this farm
Ten years beyond that war
Now concrete covers Second Ground
And Sheltermore.

But I look from here to there
No city do I see
Still peacefully our horses graze
On green Rooksley.

No shops on Little Hills
No traffic down Long Line
The rooks are building in the elms
I turn back time.

My dad worked on these fields
As many had before
On Little Hills and Second Ground
And Sheltermore.

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from Sheltermore, released September 11, 2015
Words & music: Kevin Adams

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Blending traditional folk music with a love of other genres- classical, jazz, folk-rock, prog-rock, pop… music, music, music…

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