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Mary M Strachan - The Weather Was Different Then

from The Skye & Lochalsh Community Album Project by Louis Barabbas

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This song is inspired by conversations in community spaces around Skye and Lochalsh then recorded by local musicians as part of the Culture Collective project funded by Creative Scotland and co-ordinated by local events charity SEALL. Profits from album sales go to Alzheimer Scotland.
www.seall.co.uk
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lyrics

Every year begins and ends with Winter
And I’ve known a few that middle that way too
I’ve watched the mornings break and caught the splinters
Seen some that last the day and all night through
I’m not a sentimental sort
I don’t rose tint the past
They always told me life was short
And nothing really lasts
But nights are getting chillier, hills are getting hillier
Even the wind and rain
Are somehow unfamiliar

Oh the weather was different then
I remember way back when
My sister was eight and I was ten
The weather was different then

My memories are like muscles and bones
They feel different depending on the day
They ache when I walk too far from home
Sometimes the ache doesn’t go away
I see my father’s empty beer glass
And his boat down at the jetty
White moths in the long grass
Like the ghosts of confetti
Coal fizzing on the grate
The tapping of a loosened slate
A world between the raindrops
A world that just won’t wait

Oh the weather was different then
I remember way back when
Boys would be boys and men were men
The weather was different then

I’ve gathered seaweed after storms at low tide
And trained the tug-o-war team with a tree
I’ve seen the veins forming in the hillside
And felt the same subsidence deep in me
For the past is ever present
The thens soon outnumber the nows
Each night whether full moon or crescent
I think of all the folk that have lived in this house

Oh the weather was different then
I remember way back when
In wood and peak and pool and glen
The weather was different then
The weather was different then.

credits

from The Skye & Lochalsh Community Album Project, released August 4, 2023
Written by Louis Barabbas

Lead vocals: Mary M Strachan
Accordion: Ruth Sharpe
Clarinets: Hanna Pentikäinen, Sheila Ryding, Lynne Anstice Brown and Jacqui Ross
Pipes: Angus MacKenzie
Tuba: Mike Norton
Guitar and bass: Louis Barabbas
Backing vocals: Lis Phillips, Keri Skye, Tom Cleghorn, Elaine Ferguson, Lian Na Rose, Ian Laing, Sylvia Porter, Meg Rosher, Andy Rose, Carys Turner-Jones, Marian Wright
Posse chants, stamps and vocals: Sorcha Walker, Sue Zarod, Sarah C Williams, Angela Wallis, Paul Taylor, Diana Mackie, Alan Cleobury-Jones, Lorayne McLucas, Hannah Myers and Miriam Ascher
Drums and percussion: Tom Cleghorn, Sorcha Walker, Hayley Finnin, Steve Twaddle, Hazel Raee, Kirsten Sierag, Sue Weeks, Paul Taylor, Helen Taylor, Philippa Macrae, Karen Davies, Mick Hope, Sheila Ryding, Anthony Forsyth, Chris Forsyth

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Louis Barabbas is a writer, performer and firefighter, best known for caustic love songs and energetic stage shows.

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