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Daniel Cullen - Tour Bus Rag

from The Skye & Lochalsh Community Album Project by Louis Barabbas

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Inspired by conversations in community spaces around Skye and Lochalsh - particularly about how a highland tour company allegedly makes up history and folklore to tell its customers and make the tours more fantastical.
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

If you look to your left
There’s a loch that is said
To be oldest water in the British Isles
Legend has it that the facets
Of its banks are prone to magic
Causing hazards to the wizards
That pay pilgrimage for miles

Now just turn to your right
That’s the site of a fight
Between the clans of McSomething and McBlah
The locals all insist that when the hills are veiled in mist
The ghosts bicker and chatter
While their horses pitter patter
You can hear the sabres clatter from afar

And it might as well be true
If it’s not what’s that to you?
What’s the sense in letting facts
Spoil a lovely view

Hey R*****’s
What you tell ‘em today R*****’s?
What do you sell ‘em?
A fairy story?
A magical mystery?
As if we ain’t already got enough history.

This stream has healing properties
And that one, there’s a lot of these
Look at that little crop of trees
They’re witches who were cursed
With a life of immortality
By druids using sorcery
We’ll stop for a quick cup of tea
I hope you brought your purse

Now this old well grants wishes
Old wives tell the men they kisses
That a spirit here punishes
Those who are not pure of heart
Here are forests planted by old kings
Tales of children born with wings
A hundred other made up things
Our fiction is an art

And it might as well be true
If it’s not what’s that to you?
What’s the sense in letting facts
Spoil a lovely view

Hey R*****’s…

Round about the middle of that roofrack tailback
A tour van white and little with windows tinted black
Driving dreamers round the nation
Fuelled by pure imagination
And with each circumnavigation
The island has a little more
Folklore than it had before

Hey R*****’s…

credits

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

Lead vocals: Daniel Cullen
Drums: Graeme Deas
Violin: Lis Philips
Pipes: Angus MacKenzie
Guitar and bass: Louis Barabbas
Backing vocals: 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  

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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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