Local History

from Borrowing Power From The Mill by Jason Allen / The Woodleigh Folk

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An ode to days of old and the various occupations that I might've been had I been born in 1910 on a farm in a country hamlet.

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LOCAL HISTORY

I could've been a lengthsman
Clearing nettles with my hook
Just like old man Isaac
In my second-favourite book

I could've been a drowner
Dropping hatches in the brook
Watering the meadow
With the jackdaws and the rooks

But I was born a townsman
And a townsman I will be
I was born too late for making
Local history

I could've been a farmer
Casting seeds across the earth
Gathering the harvest
Before the winter sends its dearth

And I could've been the miller
Grinding corn to make the bread
The river turning grit stones
Under hues of sunset red

But I was born a townsman
And a townsman I will be
I was born too late for making
Local history

All these things I could've been
If I'd been somewhere else
I'm torn between the real world
And the one I couldn't help

'Cos I was born a townsman
And a townsman I will be
I was born too late for making
Local history

And I could've met my sweetheart there
And raised a family
But I was born too late for making
Local history

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from Borrowing Power From The Mill, released February 20, 2024
Written, performed, recorded and mixed by Jason Allen, October 2023 to February 2024. Made in Somerset.

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Jason Allen England, UK

Singer, songwriter and multi-instrumentalist hailing from Somerset, England. Jason has written and self-recorded multiple solo albums and EPs, the most recent of which (February 2024) is called Borrowing Power From The Mill.

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