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Settler's Wife

from Sheffield Made by Steel Songbirds

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Written by Marilla Homes, while staying in a straw bale hut, with no electricity, just candle light, in the middle of a eucalypt forest, in hot summer (January) in Australia, in a place called Wingelo, which means 'Place of Burning'. Fortunately nothing burned except the creative spark!

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3. Settler’s Wife
© Marilla Homes 2012

Pain and sorrow, trouble and strife,
All just part of a settler’s life.
Weave and spin in the dust and tin –
Spare a thought for the settler’s wife.

Hey ho for the settler’s life
Hey ho for the settler’s wife [x2]

Clear the scrub and till the land –
See the callous on the settler’s hand.
She cooks for four and she eats for two –
She doesn’t get much with the settler’s band.

Hey ho for the settler’s hands
Hey ho for the settler’s band [x2]

Shearing sheep will break your back,
Pass it on to the settler’s jack.
Keeping house while the settler’s out,
Wond’ring if he will ever come back.

Hey ho for the settler’s jack
Hey ho will he ever come back? [x2]

Going to the bank after fire and flood,
A bullet through the skull of the settler’s stud.
Sifting through the ash and the dust and mud
All but covered in the settler’s blood.

Hey ho for the settler’s stud
Hey ho for the settler’s blood [x2]

Pain and sorrow, trouble and strife,
All just part of a settler’s life.
Weave and spin in the dust and tin –
Spare a thought for the settler’s wife.

Hey ho for the settler’s life
Hey ho for the settler’s wife [x2]

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from Sheffield Made, released February 15, 2019

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Steel Songbirds Sheffield, UK

Steel Songbirds are Marilla Homes and Emily Eastwood. A comic and poignant musical duo based in Sheffield UK. Blending acapella voices, with occasional fiddle or bouzouki, these girls know how to laugh!

Steel Songbirds were dug from the soil of Australia & England, forged in Sheffield UK, tempered in the swimming pool of life & sharpened on the wit of singledom in the folk/pub/archaeology worlds. ... more

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