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Grog

by Grog

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1.
Ghosts of the living Steve Roberts With your lowcut neckline and your crucifix No one ever told you that sex and god don’t mix And I know what kind of tricks you get up to When you really need a fix I turn round you’re hanging on my sleeve You don’t know how to come or when to leave People turn their backs that’s why you can’t relax Face to face with these unpleasant facts Cause you’ve suffered cause you hurt Cause you don’t know which way to turn Cause you feel small cause you feel weak You’re searching the sky for that winning streak What’s that you’re saying about god I’m not sure that he can be so good He’s burnt into you like a shadow that can’t be broken Like a word that can’t be unspoken Why are you still talking to me about god Look at these people under your feet It’s not the ghosts of the dead But the ghosts of the living that haunt these streets Cause you’ve suffered cause you hurt Cause you don’t know which way to turn Cause you feel small cause you feel weak You’re searching the sky for that winning streak You need a god to harness to your dreams Cause even reason’s not what it seems But I defy you to look death in the eye And not think twice about what your god means It’s not the ghosts of the dead But the ghosts of the living that haunt these streets And everyone needs something To help them to get to sleep
2.
Leo and the candyman Steve Roberts Leo Leo you played candyman you came from Ireland with a guitar in your hand Leo Leo you sang like Donovan but in the end you preferred the candyman you went down to the sands with your money in your hand bought a one night stand for five minutes it was grand but you preferred the candyman you formed a travelling band with your travelling friend but in the end you forgot that plan cause you preferred the candyman Leo Leo you played candyman you came from Ireland with a guitar in your hand Leo Leo you sang like Donovan but in the end you preferred the candyman Leo Leo You vanished just like you came With nothing to your name Leo Leo you played candyman you came from Ireland with a guitar in your hand Leo Leo you sang like Donovan but your candyman had another plan your candyman had another plan
3.
You got to walk that lonesome valley You got to walk it by yourself No one here can walk it for you Can’t pass your path to no one else There’s no god that’s gonna save you There’s no drug to ease the pain You got to walk that lonesome valley You got to walk it to the end You got to climb that lonely mountain You got to climb it by yourself No one here can climb it for you Can’t pass your path to no one else And when you’re gone and dead and buried And you walk on through to the other side I know you won’t turn round and tell me Turn round and tell me that I lied Life can kiss you on the lips And death can take you by the hand But life can’t show you what’s in store Only death can lead to that sweet land That green shore Where you don’t suffer any more Suffer any more
4.
The fog comes down and muffles every sound The trees are bare and silent witnesses that you’re not there The hills are veiled and secretive, they won’t reveal The unspoken wish that’s floating everywhere And it’s like they know something They won’t tell The photos are standing guard on this tacit shrine to you And everywhere I look I see your face It’s as if the love and caring that brought you to this world Is frozen here in winter’s strict embrace And it’s like they know something They won’t tell In one you’re walking silently buttoned into black Your eyes absorbing all the light around The words locked inside you make me chatter to fill the lack The walls reflecting back my hollow sound And it’s like they know something They won’t tell And I want to tear that stubborn veil aside And I want to penetrate the grey earth’s hide And I want to step across that great divide And stand a while in silence at your side And stand a while in silence at your side And stand a while in silence at your side
5.
Memento 04:24
Memento Steve Roberts Today I’m happy I’ve just come from the bar I’m on the street not going far No one to meet and my love is texting me Life is shapely when you’re free / when you’re free Today I’m happy I’ve got everything I need Friday evening it’s still light Hotels shopping malls high rise in the clouds Now I can lose myself in the crowd / in the crowd The world is turning got a message from my love The world is turning she’s thinking of me The world is changing and it’s carrying us away The world is changing I wouldn’t have it any other way Acacias dropping yellow flowers everywhere I scoop them up my only souvenir I’ve just seen someone who looks like a memory Or maybe it’s just the time of year / the time of year These flowers remind me of someone who’s not here That’s the memento in my palm Whisper your thoughts , let’s steal a moment we can share Pretend that time has done no harm / done no harm The world is turning got a message from my love The world is turning she’s thinking of me The world is changing and it’s carrying us away The world is changing I wouldn’t have it any other way
6.
Sunrise in the Hammada Xavier Rivero / Steve Roberts Sunrise in the Hammada Sun of sand and slow fire In Tinduff the haimas open Fragrance of tea and sleeping children Sunrise in the Hammada Sun of flame and empty paths She’s waiting to go home Back to the beach they snatched away To touch the waves, touch the water And watch the sun rise on the future Sunrise in the Hammada So many days, so long ago She’s waiting to go home at last And snatch the future from the past She’s waiting to go home Wearing el-melhfa of bright gold Farewell the weeping and the mourning The wide abandoned sands are calling Sunrise in the Hammada, Scorches and shrivels her thoughts Sunrise in the Hammada, Searing her skin and her dreams
7.
Torch Song 03:18
Torch Song Steve Roberts I saw you once again last night You came up to visit me I wish I knew why And I couldn’t find the right words to say Those words that would make you want to stay So many times I’ve dreamed of you There must be something we left unsaid There must be something I still have to do That will let me let go of you I live with you and without you You’re within me and without Knowing that we’ll never meet again Though you’re no further than any other friend We wrestled with love but didn’t win Till it threw us both out of the ring And so we went our separate ways But something in me just would not give in That’s why I see you on this screen inside So many times when I close my eyes And when I feel that love is close to me That’s when you take me by surprise I live with you and without you … I can’t forget the cold air on your cheeks That winter morning you stepped in off the street The cold I kissed that settled on your skin Couldn’t touch the warmth deep within you And once I even saw you on the Rambla As if my dreams had been keeping you in store Twenty-two years old and no more With that same expression you always wore I live with you and without you … It’s just this sadness dogging me down This muddy water tempting me to drown This burned out torch I carry round Years ago I should have flung it to the ground And now poetry won’t come near me And music doesn’t want to hear me Cause in my dreams you still refuse To be my lifelong everlasting muse I live with you and without you …
8.
The Newry Highwayman traditional In Newry Town I was bred and born In Stephen's Green, now I die in scorn I served my time to the saddling trade But I turned out to be But I turned out to be a roving blade At seventeen I took a wife I loved her dearly as I loved my life And for to keep her both fine and gay I went a robbing, went a robbing on the King's Highway I never robbed no poor man yet Nor honest tradesman caused I to fret But I robbed lords and their ladies bright And took their jewels, took their jewels until my heart's delight I robbed Lord Golding I do declare And Lady Mansfield in Grosvenor Square I shut the shutters and bade them goodnight And home I went then, home I went then to my heart's delight To Covent Garden I made my way With my dear wife for to see the play Lord Fielding's men they did me pursue And I was taken, I was taken by the cursed crew My father cried "oh my darling son" My wife she wept and said "I am undone." My mother tore her white locks and cried "’Twas in the cradle, ‘twas in the cradle he should have died" And when I'm dead and in my grave A fancy funeral pray let me have With six bold highwaymen to carry me Give them the broadswords, give them the broadswords and sweet liberty Six pretty maidens to bear my pall Give them white garlands of lilies all And when I'm dead they will speak the truth He was a wild and, he was a wild and a wicked youth
9.
High Barbary 02:54
High Barbary traditional Look ahead, look astern, Look the weather in the lee Blow high! Blow low! And so sailed we I see a wreck to the windward And a lofty ship to lee, Sailing down the coast of High Barbary Are you a pirate Or a man-o-war? cried we Blow high! Blow low! And so sailed we. Oh no I'm not a pirate But a man-o-war, cried he Sailing down the coast of High Barbary We'll haul up our topsails And heave our vessel to Blow high! Blow low! And so sailed we For we have got some letters To be carried home by you Sailing down the coast of High Barbary For broadside, for broadside They fought all on the main Blow high! Blow low! And so sailed we Until at last the frigate Shot the pirate's mast away Sailing down the coast of High Barbary With cutlass and gun, We fought for hours three Blow high! Blow low! And so sailed we Their ship it was their coffin And their grave it was the sea Sailing down the coast of High Barbary
10.
Lord Franklin traditional Homeward bound one night on the deep Swinging in my hammock I fell asleep I dreamed a dream and I thought it true Concerning Franklin and his gallant crew With a hundred seamen he sailed away To the frozen ocean in the month of May To seek a passage around the pole Where we poor seamen do sometimes go Through cruel hardships they made a stroke Their ships on mountains of ice was broke Only the Eskimo with his skin canoe Was the only one that ever got through In Baffin's Bay where the whale fishes blow The fate of Franklin no man may know The fate of Franklin no tongue can tell Lord Franklin alone with his sailors do dwell And now my burden it gives me pain For my long lost Franklin I'd cross the main Ten thousand pounds I would freely give To say on earth that my Franklin did live

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released March 14, 2015

Grog són:
Steve Roberts: veus, guitarra, buzuki, baix, teclat
Antonio Miranda: cajón, bodhrán, ric, percussió
amb la col.laboració de:
Ricard Ros: flauta, high whistle, low whistle, uilleann pipes, accordió, buzuki
Ruben Fajardo: buzuki, mandolina, guitarra
Gravat I mesclat per Ricard Ros a la Cambra, Sant Boi
Producció de Ricard Ros; Steve Roberts, Antonio Miranda
Temes 1-5, 7 © Steve Roberts 2014, tema 6 © Steve Roberts i Xavier Rivero 2014 all rights reserved, temes 8-10 trad. arr. Roberts, Miranda i Ros
Disseny de Marta Guijarro
Fotos de Àlex Fernandez

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