Folk Lyrics IADT (2024 Archive)
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Folk Lyrics in a Dangerous Time (2025 onwards) is at @folklyrics.bsky.social This archive (with occasional improvements) is IG posts from Aug 9-Dec 31 2024. Themes & through lines. +folk-adjacent. 🇨🇦 (stolen land). Protect each other 😷🌎🕊💚 She/her.
![As we go marching, marching
Unnumbered women dead
Go crying through our singing
Their ancient cry for bread
Small art and love and beauty
Their drudging spirits knew
Yes, it is bread we fight for
But we fight for roses too
Words by James Oppenheim, as performed by Dawn Landes
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![You will eat, you will eat, by and by
In the glorious land in the sky, way up high
Work and pray, live on hay
You'll get pie in the sky when you die (that's a lie)
Workingmen of all countries, unite
Together we'll stand and we'll fight
When the world and its wealth we have gained
To the grafters, we'll sing this refrain
You will eat, you will eat, by and by
When you've learned how to cook and to fry
Chop some wood, do you good
And you'll eat in the sweet by and by (that's no lie)
By Joe Hill, as performed by Joe Glazer
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![Now the strikes were bloody
And the strikes were black
As hard as they were long
In the dark of the night
Joe would stay awake and write
In the morning, he would raise them with a song
In the morning, he would raise them with a song
And he wrote his words
To the tunes of the day
To be passed along the union vine
And the strikes were led
And the songs were spread
And Joe Hill was always on the line
Yes, Joe Hill was always on the line
Phil Ochs
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![The rain's too hard, the streams are too high
Too many people, barely getting by
Some haven't yet paid for last winter's heat
Labor day is done and the ends don't meet
Wise men say temperature's rising
And there's more water in the air
It comes down with a vengeance
Which no memory can compare
John Gorka
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![United we stand, divided we fall
For every dime they give us
A battle must be fought
So, working people, use your power
The key to liberty
Don't support that rich man's style of luxury
And there ain't no way
They can ever keep us down, oh no
Ain't no way they can ever keep us down
We won't be bought, we won't be sold
To be treated right, well, that's our goal
And there ain't no way
They can ever keep us down
Hazel Dickens
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![Everybody's saying
That it's gonna be alright
But I can't help but wonder
If it's gonna be on my dime
We are the poor ones
Rowing up against the tide
Burning our reserves of courage
And working just to make it alright
When we know it isn't
We know it isn't, we know it isn't
We know it isn't, it ain't gonna turn out right
We know it isn't, we know it isn't
We know it isn't, that's why we gots to fight
Yola
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![The reactor's down
I guess for Labour Day
Today is the first day
I ain't seen the great plume of steam
From across the lake
From across the lake
Hey, that's a morning moon, yeah
I'm not making strange
You said, "Someone's paying
When something's too cheap
Somebody's paying something"
You said, "Someone's paying something"
Under a morning moon, yeah
Say those little things
That don't make anyone feel better, yeah
The Tragically Hip
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![You know, capitalism is above the law
It say, "It don't count 'less it sells"
When it costs too much to build it at home
You just build it cheaper someplace else
Well, it's sundown on the union
And what's made in the U.S.A.
Sure was a good idea
'Til greed got in the way
Bob Dylan
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![As a union man, I'm wise
To the lies of the company spies
And I don't get fooled by the factory rules
'Cause I always read between the lines
And I always get my way
If I strike for higher pay
When I show my card to the Scotland Yard
And this is what I say
Oh, you don't get me, I'm part of the union
You don't get me, I'm part of the union
You don't get me, I'm part of the union
'Til the day I die, 'til the day I die
Strawbs
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![The seam is split, the coal face cracked
The lines are long, there's no going back
Through hands of steel, and heart of stone
Our labour day has come and gone
And you leave me holding
In Red Hill Town
See the lights go down
Hanging on
You're all that's left to hold on to
I'm still waiting
U2
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![I can make out the belt of the hunter Orion
He's climbing the heavens, he's sweeping the skies
I can tell by the stars in his glittering belt
That it's time to start searching for how and for why
So many stars come and go
Some have names and some you know
Some will remind me of you
So many things here and gone
Some don't fit and some belong
Some will remind me of you
James Keelaghan
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![Someone's in the rearview mirror
Stay in your lane, you'll be fine
Mercury is stuck in Scorpio
And the Little Dipper's dripping dry
Take it in, open your heart
They're smiling, hold on
Take it in, open your ears
They're laughing, hold on
Take it in, open your mouth
They're singing, hold on
We're passengers and the road is long
Aoife O'Donovan feat. Madison Cunningham
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![Well the river banks makes a mighty true road
Dead trees mark the way
Left foot, peg foot, traveling on
Follow the drinking gourd
Follow the drinking gourd
Follow the drinking gourd
For the old man is a-waitin'
For to carry you to freedom
Follow the drinking gourd
Traditional, arranged by Taj Mahal, Linda Tillery & Eric Bibb
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![Great bear, dog, bull, flyin' fish
Scorpion, peacock, make your wish
Pleiades sisters, seven on high
Singin' in the heaven's silver light
Ah-ha, oh-woa-ho-oh
You showed me the stars
Ah-ha, oh-woa-ho-oh
Wherever you are
Georgia, Georgia
Can you hear me callin' in the grave?
case/lang/veirs
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![If you could hold up her
Threadbare coat to the light
Where it's worn translucent in places
You'd see spots where
Almost every night of the year
Bear had been mending
Suspending that baseness
Now her coat drags through the water
Bagging, with a life's-worth of hunger
Limitless minnows
In the magnetic embrace
Balletic and glacial
Of bear's insatiable shadow
Joanna Newsom
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![Past where the clouds
That clothe Andromeda
Float before the mouths
Of fishes paired
And turning five stars north
Of Great Bear's paw
Set in the forehead
Of the Little Bear
The target of our flight
Is shining down
Signaling the heart
Of everyone
By Kenji Miyazawa, arranged by Bruce Cockburn
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![Andromeda was chained unto a rock
Beside the shore
But rescue came as she upon
A winged horse was borne
Poseidon was incensed
That his vengeance was denied
So he caught Cassiopeia
And he cast her in the sky
All mortals looking to the stars will see
None are more beautiful
No, none can compare themselves
No, none are made great by vanity
Red Moon Road
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![The only thing that keeps me
From driving this car
Half-light, jack knife
Into the canyon at night
Signs and wonders:
Perseus aligned with the skull
Slain Medusa
Pegasus alight from us all
Do I care if I survive this?
Bury the dead where they're found
In a veil of great surprises
I wonder did you love me at all?
Sufjan Stevens
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![When you see the Southern Cross
For the first time
You understand now why you came this way
'Cause the truth you might be running from
Is so small
But it's as big as the promise
The promise of a coming day
So I'm sailing for tomorrow
My dreams are a-dying
And my love is an anchor tied to you
Tied with a silver chain
I have my ship, and all her flags are a-flying
She is all that I have left
And music is her name
Crosby, Stills & Nash
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![I got to your house this morning
Just a little after nine
In the middle of that riot
Couldn't get you off my mind
So, I'm at your house this morning
Just a little after nine
'Cause, it was in Bobcaygeon
Where I saw the constellations
Reveal themselves
One star at a time
The Tragically Hip
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![Oh, peace like a river
Ran through the city
Long past the midnight curfew
We sat starry-eyed
Oh, we were satisfied
Oh, and I remember
Misinformation followed us like a plague
Nobody knew from time to time
If the plans were changed
Oh, if the plans were changed
You can beat us with wires
You can beat us with chains
You can run out your rules
But you know you can't
Outrun the history train
I've seen a glorious day
Paul Simon
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![Summer all over
Blame it on timing
Weakening August water
Loose-eyed in the morning
Sunlight covered over
Wading in sight of fire
And we're finally aligning
More than maybe I can choose
Soon as I knew you
All so wide open
Wading inside of fire
As if I just saw you
Cross Second Avenue
Wading in waist-high water
Fleet Foxes
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![The summer ends
And we wonder who we are
And there you go, my friends
With your boxes in your car
And today I passed the high school
The river, the maple tree
I passed the farms that made it
Through the last days of the century
And I knew that I was going to learn again
Again, in this less hazy light
I saw the fields beyond the fields
The fields beyond the fields
And the colors are much brighter now
It's like they really want to tell the truth
We give our testimony
To the end of the summer
It's the end of the summer
You can spin the light to gold
Dar Williams
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![Moon on the rise
Gold ball of beeswax rolling in space
Wind in my eyes
Caught in a draft of time and place
No crowds, moon and me only
Surf pounds, I'm suddenly lonely
All too soon, summer is over
All too soon, the planet is colder
All too soon, heartbeats are slower
All too soon, the season is sleeping
All too soon, the willows are weeping
All too soon, clock hands are creeping
Mark Heard
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![When August winds are turning
The fishing boats set out upon the sea
I watch 'til they sail out of sight
The winter follows soon
I watch them drawn into the night
Beneath the August moon
No one knows I come here
Some things I don't share
I can't explain the reasons why
It moves me close to tears
Or something in the season's change
Will find me wandering here
Sting
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![Yeah I loved you all my life
And that's how I want to end it
The summer's almost gone
The winter's tuning up
Yeah, the summer's gone
But a lot goes on forever
And I can't forget
I can't forget
I can't forget but I don't remember what
Leonard Cohen
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![And if I can still be honest?
When the sun sets late
In the way it does
At the end of the summertime
In the summertime
Summertime is a mess
For those of us who know it
October is closer
Than any one of us can admit
If every song from now on is about you
Every song, every song from now on
I can play on and on
Basia Bulat
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![Tall and strong
She slips along
I sing for her a song
And she leans into the wind
She's a good old boat
And she'll stay afloat
Through the toughest gale
And keep smilling
When the summer ends
We will rest again
In the lee of Christian Island
Gordon Lightfoot
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![Ah, summer is over
But the music keeps playing
And won't let the cold get me down...
Pictures are forming inside my brain
Soon with the colors
They'll rain together and grow
Then don't you know, don't you know
There'll be music
Carole King
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![I heard it in the wind last night
It sounded like applause
Chilly now
End of summer
No more shiny hot nights
It was just the arbutus rustling
And the bumping of the logs
And the moon swept down black water
Like an empty spotlight
Joni Mitchell
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![The moon and stars
Hang out in bars
Just talking
I still love that picture
Of us walking
Just like that ol' house
We thought was haunted
Summer's end came faster
Than we wanted
Come on home
Come on home
No, you don't have to be alone
Come on home
John Prine
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![Take your mind off the life
We've been tearin' apart
Take the weight off your feet, take a few
Take your time to align
All the factors in favour of you
Take the summer's gone by
And get used to it
Take the safest conclusion you find
Take a look on my face
In this Albion race of a kind
Iain Matthews
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![I had a dream where you'd holed up in Guelph
You made a life above the Albion hotel
And it was hard to know if the angels had come, or if
Or if you'd come undone again
Troubles piled and problems they grew
And it was hardly ever me and hardly ever you
And I don't know now what to do
Do you know and do you know about it
Know about it
Craig Cardiff
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![When I take that last step
Out that window
It's easy to fly
When I take that last step
Out that door
It's easy to be blind
I'm not lyin'
Most of the time
I hear Albion and Africa
Red roses on the clouds
Everything we have
The Reverend Shawn Amos & The Brotherhood
Feat. Kenya Hathaway
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![Last lion of Albion
They'll use you for centuries to come
They'll steal your patents for the sun
And you'll feel extinction
Last lion of Albion
They'll use you for centuries to come
Your wound's the main road into London
You'll feel extinction
When you see your face
On their money
Neko Case
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![They come in pretty suits of blue
Their sweet smiles hide their poison tongues
They talk of dreams and pastures new
But power's breath corrupts their lungs
They sold the farm to buy the land
They sold the land to buy the gun
From sea to sea with torch in hand
They stripped the fields of Albion
Here come the liars
Go get your men
Go light your fires
Jerusalem
Reg Meuross
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![Well the night drew black
And the rifle crack
Made perfidious Albion reel
Through the laden rain
Seven tongues of flame
They rang out over lines of steel
And on to every blade
A prayer I'd said
That to Ireland her young men would be true
Oh and when morning broke
Well the war flag shook
Out its folds all in the foggy dew
Charles O'Neill, arranged by Daoirí Farrell
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![The ministry don't worry me
My paperwork's alright
They can't touch me
I got my sleep last night
It's knocking out a living wage
In nineteen sixty-nine
I'm just a thiever
Stealing time in the Border Reiver
Sure as the sunrise
That's what they say about the Albion
Sure as the sunrise
That's what they say about the Albion
She's an Albion, she's an Albion
Mark Knopfler
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![And in the crowds of everyone
I thought I saw a world to come
I saw another Albion
But they came with their wrecking balls
And even as the darkness falls
Around the union halls
The ghost of courage calls
But when you're lost at sea
When you're on your knees
And when all you see
Is the world just fall apart again
Look for me
Honey, there I'll be
Yeah, and piece by piece
I'll pick you right back up and start again
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![Chucking out time
At the bar on the corner (everyone sang)
From the Albion tap room
To California (everyone sang)
In the olden days
Before they put in a jukebox (everyone sang)
Somebody struck up a song
We didn't know the words
But still we sang along
Just our voices, that's all
Everywhere a concert hall
Voices, that's all
Lullaby and call
Chumbawamba
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![Songs of hope and tunes of glory
Half remembered Albion hymns
Rise up Saint George and tell the story
This is where your song begins
Leave the drunkard to his bottle
And leave the prophet to his doom
Let the critics sneer and prattle
Give Saint George some fighting room
Come, come, throw a penny on the drum
A penny for the passing of the days
Run, run, and see the setting of the sun
Come and see the changing of the ways
The Albion Band
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![I've seen the flame of hope
Among the hopeless
And that was truly
The biggest heartbreak of all
That was the straw
That broke me open
If this were the last night of the world
What would I do?
What would I do that was different
Unless it was champagne with you?
Bruce Cockburn
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![Now, poor old planet Pluto now
He never stood a chance no how
When he got uninvited to
The interplanetary dance
Once a mighty planet there
Now just an ordinary star
Hanging out in Hollywood
In some old funky sushi bar
The lonesome friends of science say
"The world will end most any day"
Well, if it does, then that's OK
'Cause I don't live here anyway
John Prine
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![Thunder rumbles in the distance
A quiet intensity
I am willfull, your insistence
Is tugging at the best of me
You're the moon, I'm the water
You're Mars, calling up Neptune's daughter
Sometimes rain that's needed falls
We float like tow lovers
In a painting by Chagall
All around is sky and blue town
Holding these flowers for a wedding gown
We live so high above the ground
Satellites surround us
The Weepies
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![Here is my nickel and here is my dime
Go down to the corner and buy me the Times
And look it up, look it up
Tell me if my planets are all in a line
Oh, all in a line
Move over Moon
Get out of Uranus
This house is anxious for the Sun to come in
'Cause it's on the rise, it's on the rise
It's time for my new day to begin
So move over Moon
Kate & Anna McGarrigle
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![Sweet tea in the summer
Cross your heart, won't tell no other
And though I can't recall your face
I still got love for you
Your braids like a pattern
Love you to the Moon and to Saturn
Passed down like folk songs
The love lasts so long
Taylor Swift
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![Jupiter Hollow
Northern lights
Cast a glow
Through the window
Late last night
I went to follow
Through the sycamore
When I found myself
In a place
I'd never been before
The Band
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