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Fortingall Working Song

from Lore EP by Lisa Rigby

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There is a burial mound, Carn nam Marbh, in a field in Fortingall, a wee village in Glen Lyon, Perthshire. On top of the cairn is the Clach a' Phlaigh, the Plague Stone, marking the burial site of many villagers who succumbed to the plague in the 14th Century. The legend goes that one, if not the only survivor, an old woman, was the one who buried them: I got lost in thinking about that woman's work and wrote this.

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Worked all my life and working still
The mountain lies afore me
The history of Fortingall lie within these fingers
Fingers digging ever more, as long as memory lingers

CH
Here's where I bury ma hairt
Here lies the world
That bid me kneel agin the wheel
Tae deith fae laughin girl

I hae nae time to stop and greet
For all that lies ahind me
In younger days when I would cry
I'd make sure nane could hear me
Noo Deith an I staun in the field
There's nothing left I'm feared eh

CH

One by one cam fa'in doon
Birks fa'in in the forest
Til nane but silence moved aroon'
and deith moved through the glen
Noo it's wi the pirrie birds I bide
Nae women, bairns or men

CH

I'm old in life but no as old
as Deith noo maks me feel
My weary bones that dig the earth
As I mak ma deadly reel
Willna rest like those I lay
Forever lying still

CH

No til the last is in the groun
An corbies willna dine
No til they're all the gither
Aneath this silent stand
It's then I'll gang across the fields
Awa tae rest ma ain

CH

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from Lore EP, released October 24, 2020
Written and sung by Lisa Rigby

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Singer and songwriter based in Edinburgh, Scotland

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