Cloth of Gold, by Talis Kimberley

Cloth of Gold

by Talis Kimberley

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For Wool Week, I'm posting a rough recording of one of my very newest songs, celebrating the Cotswold Sheep. My friend Alfie Purl (www.facebook.com/AlfiePurl) is a Cotswold, and he's got a quite remarkable story... Emma, his human, lent me some books for the research stage of this song, which I'd love one day to sing at Country Shows and Rare Breeds farms. I sang it to Alfie the other day, anyway; I think he quite enjoyed the experience!

lyrics

CLOTH OF GOLD

Limestone grows a good, good bone
On England’s Southern hills
Half our country’s income once -
And so the coffer fills
Warm cloaks for the Roman folks
To a flock ten thousand strong
And limestone grows a good good bone
Where the Cotswold sheep belong:

Here’s your three bags full, my lords,
Here’s treasure bought and sold
Here’s vestments for your kings and priests and here’s your Cloth of Gold,
Here’s your three bags full, my lords,
Here’s treasure bought and sold
Here’s vestments for your kings and priests and here’s your Cloth of Gold.

Here find of ‘the whitest kind
The staple thick and deep’
Dayton wrote of the Cotswold Lion
And Dayton knew his sheep
The staple thick and deep, he said
And through to ‘the very grain’
And ‘It most strongly keepeth out
The violentest rain’

Here’s your three bags full...

Corn grows, so the farmer knows
Where thrives the golden hoof
Husband well your Cotswold flock
And you’ll prosper, that’s the truth
A hardy sheep and docile
Long-lived, and good to lamb;
Husband well your Cotswold flock
Your wethers, ewes and ram!

Here’s your three bags full...

credits

released 07 September 2011
Vocals & bouzouki: Talis Kimberley. Backing vocal and bodhran: Chantelle Smith. Recorded at Spiral Studios on the little Tascam.