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Home Fires Burning (Live at The Old Church)

from Live at The Old Church by Adam Beattie

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Recorded live at The Old Church, Stoke Newington, London

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​​I left town age eighteen
Left the northern lights of Aberdeen
I went far enough from home
To find a place to call my own
Will you keep the home fires burning
While this big bad world keeps turning
While I go and dig for gold
And you shelter from the cold

Mum and dad had seen it all
Warned of all the ways that I may fall
Told me tales of people lost
Voyagers who’d paid the cost
Will you keep the home fires burning
Will you pray for my returning
That I will weather all the storms
Down this rocky road I’m on

Then one year
I came back and found
My old school
Flattened to the ground
The tree we first
Kissed beneath was gone
Taken by the last big storm
Will you keep the home fires burning
While the wheels of time are turning
For all the things that break and bend
Love will last until the end

I left town age eighteen
Left the northern lights of Aberdeen
It’s now been years I’ve been away
Now mum and dad are old and grey
But they keep the home fires burning
For they know my heart is yearning
And though the pipes may always play
They’ll call me home but I can’t stay

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from Live at The Old Church, released March 17, 2023
Words and music by Adam Beattie

Adam Beattie (vocals, guitars)
Fiona Bevan (vocals, double bass)
Mikey Kenney (violin, vocals)
Chris Jones (drums, percussion)
Zac Gvirtzman (accordion, saxophone, bass clarinet, clarinet)

Mixed and mastered by Tom Archer

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Adam Beattie Scotland, UK

Scottish singer songwriter Adam Beattie has released 5 studio albums. His latest album ‘Somewhere Round The Bend’ received critical acclaim, "Uplifting reveries of love" - MOJO Magazine, "5/5 Master of powerful narratives” - RnR MAGAZINE, “8/10 “Stirring folk balladry” - THE LINE OF BEST FIT, “A very fine record, full of great moments” - RODDY HART, BBC RADIO SCOTLAND ... more

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