The Man On The Hill
from The Common Land by Kevin Adams
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Compact Disc (CD) + Digital AlbumThirteen of my own songs: seven written for various Living Archive theatre and radio productions, three for the Maids Moreton's Millennium Pageant, and three strays which wandered in.
Released in 2002.
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Inspired by the ridgeways, hill forts and great chalkhill figures of southern England.
lyrics
The Man On The Hill
words & music: Kevin Adams
The track through the long grass,
The flint and the chalk path
Are the ways of the Man on the Hill.
Flock of sheep grazing
Ears of corn waving,
And the earth works defend him there still.
Who is the man on the hill?
Do we look up to him still?
Who sees the view from the hill?
For mile upon mile from the hill.
Though valleys defy him
The wind and the sky lift him high
With the larks on the hill.
Horn flint and leather
Will serve him for ever
No need to come down from the hill.
Between the stone portals
And into the darkness
They carried the man on the hill.
Laid him down there
With his hound and his spear
And he hunts in that other world still.
White lines on the greensward
As drawn on a blackboard
Stands naked, the man on the hill.
The four winds blow through him
The snowfall lies over him.
Clothing the man on the hill.
words & music: Kevin Adams
The track through the long grass,
The flint and the chalk path
Are the ways of the Man on the Hill.
Flock of sheep grazing
Ears of corn waving,
And the earth works defend him there still.
Who is the man on the hill?
Do we look up to him still?
Who sees the view from the hill?
For mile upon mile from the hill.
Though valleys defy him
The wind and the sky lift him high
With the larks on the hill.
Horn flint and leather
Will serve him for ever
No need to come down from the hill.
Between the stone portals
And into the darkness
They carried the man on the hill.
Laid him down there
With his hound and his spear
And he hunts in that other world still.
White lines on the greensward
As drawn on a blackboard
Stands naked, the man on the hill.
The four winds blow through him
The snowfall lies over him.
Clothing the man on the hill.
credits
from The Common Land,
released June 23, 2002
Words & music: Kevin Adams
Words & music: Kevin Adams
license
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Kevin Adams Milton Keynes, UK
Blending traditional folk music with a love of other genres- classical, jazz, folk-rock, prog-rock, pop… music, music, music…
discography
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contact / help
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My collaborator Dave Makins - check him out.
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