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THE HOUSE BAND PACIFIC

1. PACIFIC 2. DIAMANTINA DROVER 3. JOY AFTER SORROW 4. IN AT THE DEEP END 5. OLD MAN RIVER 6. THE PIT STANDS IDLE 7. GOING PLACES 8. FOR THE SAKE OF EXAMPLE 9. BLAZING RUSE Brian Brooks – bouzouki, keyboards, whistle, vocals Ged Foley – guitar, mandolin, northumbrian pipes, vocals Chris Parkinson – melodeons, keyboards, harmonica, whistle, vocals John Skelton bombardes – flutes, whistles, TSDL445

PACIFIC for the years have slowly gone the cobb/unknown/the metric fox like the drays from old Cork Station A slow air and two dance tunes in an and I won’t be back when the droving’s unusual rhythm. The Metric Fox is our done version of the well known slip jig Well it seems like the sun comes up each morning brian brooks/synthesisers it sets it up, then takes it all away john skelton/low whistle, flute ged foley/mandolin for the dreaming by the light Pacific chris parkinson/synthesiser, prepared piano,

02 harmonica ends with the burning light of day of campfire at evening DIAMANTINA DROVER Sometimes I think I’ll settle back in Sydney The Diamantina is a river in Queensland, but it’s been so long it’s hard to change Australia, which is dry for most of the year. your mind Ged learnt this song from Martin Colledge for the cattle trains go on and on in 1983 the fences run forever I won’t be back when the droving’s done The faces in the photograph are fading I can’t believe he looks so much like me ged foley/lead vocals, guitar It’s been ten long years today brian brooks/vocals, synthesiser that I left for old Cork station john skelton/low whistle Saying I won’t be back when the droving’s done chris parkinson/melodeon

CHORUS For the rain never falls on the dusty Diamantina

the drover finds it hard to change his mind TSDL445

JOY AFTER SORROW nothing Taken from John Playford’s ‘The Dancing He just keeps rolling Master’ Vol 2, 4th edition published in He keeps on rolling along 1728. We have added an extra measure of joy in the second half He don’t plant taters, He don’t plant cotton ged foley/guitar and them that plants them are soon brian brooks/bouzouki forgotten that Old Man River Pacific chris parkinson/melodeon He just keeps rolling along 03 john skelton/flute You and me we sweat and strain IN AT THE DEEP END body all aching and wracked with pain the four courts/the fox on the prowl move that barge lift that bale Two Irish reels. The second is usually you get a little drunk and you land in jail played as a two part tune and is sometimes known as The Rabbit’s Burrow I get weary and sick of trying I’m tired of living and scared of dying that Old Man River chris parkinson/melodeon, synthesiser He just keeps rolling along brianjohn skelton/flute brooks/bouzouki ged foley/guitar ged foley/vocal, guitar brian brooks/bouzouki, whistle OLD MAN RIVER chris parkinson/harmonica From the singing of Paul Robeson, a great American

Old Man River, that Old Man River john skelton/flute, whistle He must know something, He don’t say TSDL445

THE PIT STANDS IDLE A fusion of two styles of music from the world war is now known. What these North East of England recorded with a dayswithin would the British be diagnosed Army during as ‘battle the first little help from our friends from California fatigue’ was then known as cowardice.

ged foley/pipes DON’T YOU GO john skelton/whistle … and the silicon valley memorial The Army and the Navy, they never will brass band – conductor mike roczhip agree Pacific till all the men and all the boys are gone from this country 04 GOING PLACES kato sta limonadika/the trip to amnesia CHORUS Don’t you go, don’t you go my son Rhodes during a stint as resident musician Don’t you go, don’t you go my son onChris board learnt the the SS firstUganda tune on the island of The proud and the powerful in whose chris parkinson/melodeon hands we lie brian brooks/bouzouki they never will be pleasured till all our ged foley/guitar, effects women cry

The mastery of misery called the art of war FORjohn skelton/fluteTHE SAKE OF EXAMPLE must never triumph over peace as it has done before don’t you go/the distant song/for the sake of example/ FOR THE SAKE OF EXAMPLE goodbye to all that

the main to the efforts of Anthony started running After fifty years of secrecy, and thanks in Babington*, the true extent of executions andI was for fourteen two years years I lived old whenon a seaman’s I first TSDL445

poor wage They took me away many miles from the till I met with a sergeant who said I’d do front line better where a court martial’s justice was so I joined up by adding two years to my promised to me age but a colonel and major who’d never seen

In the winter I found I was scared stiff of both told me that only a coward would dying fighting up to my knees in mud and in snow Pacific and I knew that it wasn’t just me that was fleeThen I heard someone say ‘they were 05 lying shooting deserters’ and I wish that I’d heard someone say ‘don’t you go’ so I started to run to escape from the escort iffor they the hadn’tfirst time shot in at years me I’d I made be running myself yet wet So I ran and I crawled, I swam and I stumbled For three months alone in this cellar away from the sounds, the smells, and the they’ve kept me sights and tomorrow at dawn when I’ve just and I got past the barbed wire, the turned eighteen redcaps and bullies I’ll have grown old enough to be made an example an example of ignorant men born to lead theyFor six station days orbehind more us I kept to help moving us to fight westward For the sake of example, just as an example moving by night and hiding by day that was the reason they gave to the boy till at last in the barn of a farmer I’d trusted for the sake of example, just as an example for the price of a shilling I was given away

to encourage the others; his final employ TSDL445

brian brooks/lead vocal, synthesisers, bouzouki BRIAN BROOKS bouzouki, keyboards, ged foley/lead vocal, guitar, pipes whistles, vocals chris parkinson/melodeon (C/F), backing vocals GED FOLEY guitar, mandolin, northumbrian pipes, vocals CHRIS PARKINSON melodeons, johnBLAZING skelton/flute, RUSE whistles keyboards, harmonica, whistle, vocals ridee/ronds de loudeac JOHN SKELTON The ridee is a dance from South East bombardes Brittany. This is followed by two dance flutes, whistles, Pacific tunes from the ‘Pays Gallo’ (the French * Anthony Babington, ‘For the Sake of Example’ 06 speaking part of Brittany), our Leo Cooper 1983 interpretation is closer to a plinn than a rond however. We dedicate this track to Recorded at Ideal Sound Recorders, London our goods friends Ar Bleizi Ruz. Special Engineered by David Kenny thanks to the Bagad Ti Nevez for their help Produced by The House Band and David Kenny in the recording Executive Producer Tony Engle Front sleeve photography Michael de Camp Back sleeve photography Dave Peabody chris parkinson/grand piano, melodeon Sleeve design by Tony Engle brianjohn skelton/low brooks/synthesiser bombarde, bamboo flute First published by TOPIC RECORDS LTD 1987 ged foley/guitars TSDL445

Pacific

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