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riverrun

by Mother of Order

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Written for an environmental awareness day held online in our home town of Godalming. It started from an idea that Cath has been playing with for a while and just grew from there. This will probably be one section of a much larger piece

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I tumble from the spring
Where the chalk meets the clay
into the valley I once carved
Where the baby otters play

I’m home to fish and to insects
I’m water for the land
Although you think you’ve tamed me
I’m not under your command

I slow my flow through towns
Where the people dredged me deep
I see rushes on my banks
I hear the salmon leap

I carry barges under bridges
I grow deeper still and wide
I surge towards horizon
I feel the pull of tide

I’m home to work and leisure
Carry boats and flow past the inns
I serve the men with the rods and the lines
I’m somewhere you can swim

When I become salt water
It isn’t like before
The fish are sparse and sickly
There’s plastic on the shore

The icecaps both are melting
Each time of my rebirth
The seas are slowly dying
And with them all of Earth

The ocean’s now a wasteland
Where nothing much can thrive
It’s turned into a graveyard
Where man buried so much life

When I rain onto the mountain
To become a spring again
I hope to find a better world
Be cause if not, what then?

I tumble from the spring
Where the chalk meets the clay
into the valley I once carved
Where the baby otters play

I’m home to fish and insects
I’m water for the land
Although you think you’ve tamed me
I’m not under your command

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released February 20, 2021
Words and Music: Mother of Order

Martin Hall: Vocals, Ukulele, Mandolin, Mandola, Bass, Guitar, Fiddle
Catherine Rogan: Vocals, Ukulele, Balalaika, Whistle, Percussion, Shruti

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Mother of Order England, UK

Mother of Order were Cath Rogan and the late Martin Hall. Born from shared politics, shared concerns and a general anarcho- syndicalist outlook on life.

They write and sing songs of industry and songs of love.

Their first album, Warp and Weft is songs of and about the Lancashire Cotton Famine.

They also have a repertoire of bawdy folk songs and modern material with a folk twist ... more

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