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Follow in your Wake (live at Woodford Folk Festival)

from 'Archive': Demos, Out​-​takes and One​-​offs 1995​-​2000 by Penelope Swales

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An out-take from "Live at Woodford '96-'97". Twenty-five songs were recorded over the duration of the festival, only 15 of which could fit on the album

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Follow in your wake
© Penelope Swales 1991

Find me where your echo lays
Where you led me down
Through the mornin’ fog and the evenin’ haze
In the smell of the high, dry grass
I followed in your wake

Lead me down the road to the foreshore
Never seen fields so close to the sea before
Walkin’ down through the cutting,
Felt like the air there held it’s own fire

Silver-white, the fireflies
Winkin’ in and out of the dark, they were
Hangin’ in their own light
And if it hadn’t seemed to me
That I was half-way to faerie
I wouldn’t have believed my eyes

And now I’m travelin’ down the road
My head’s too congested to see the sky and trees
I’m carryin’ my own load
And you see me walkin’ down
My head’s still back in town
Under my own personal black cloud
And you see me feelin’ down
From a distance
And you come amblin’ down
You seek me out

You’ll find me where your echo lays
You knew that I’d come back here one of these days
You’ll find me followin’ your scent
Maybe not even realising that that was my intention
But when you met me down in the high, dry grass
You knew exactly what I meant
And you lay me down in the high, dry grass
I knew exactly what you meant

Ahh….

And you see me feelin’ down
From a distance
And you come amblin’ down
You seek me out
You’ll find me where your echo lays
You’ll find em wanderin’ around in a deep-blue fog,
In a light-blue haze
And in the smell of the high, dry grass
I’ll follow in your wake
And the smell of the high, dry grass
Ever leads me back to that day
In the smell of the high, dry grass
I’ll follow in your wake

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from 'Archive': Demos, Out​-​takes and One​-​offs 1995​-​2000, released January 7, 2001
Vocals, guitar - Penelope Swales
Engineered by Siiri Metsar

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Penelope Swales Boolarra, Australia

Penelope Swales has been articulating the human condition with passion and humour for 30+ years. She sings about politics, love, friendship, the unbreakable bond between us and dogs and the impact of the Internet on society. She won the 2019 Alistair Hulett Songs for Social Justice Award with “Cambridge Analytica”. “The Ides of March in Christchurch" was short-listed for the same award in 2020. ... more

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