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    'Sodden Dogs and Blind, Winged Horses' is a follow up to DUIR's 2007 release 'The Stout Guardian of the Door'.
    Like it's predecessor, the album is a celebration of the quirks, charms and the folk-memories of the county of Lincolnshire. The album explores the myth, legend and topographic features of this rural county. A concept album - of sorts - the story is told through spoken-word, music and song.

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The song is based on a story that Victor Hugo, whilst in exile from France, walked the green lane known as The Drift on the Lincolnshire/Leicestershire border. Here there are remains of WW II bunkers and Saxon archaeology in the form of a ditch known as King Lud’s Entrenchment. There is also an ancient burial mound known as The Tent.

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Mr. Hugo walks at dawn,
Along ‘The Drift’, on through the wind and rain.
His vision of a city, that ancient maps reveal,
I can’t recall its name.

A quest to seek upon this green lane,
Reveals to me, a long lost magic spell.
Beware the long nights, and the coldness of the morn,
Adrift, in exile friend. Adrift in exile I fear.

Chorus.
I camp beside a silent bunker, I’m drowning in a silted, spirit-ditch.
Through the woods, and beneath the trees.
An ancient laid to rest under silent, falling leaves.
When I move and shift, all along The Drift.

Na’er cast-a-clout on this spring day,
A broken path of, rutted, bitter thorns,
My waking dream - exposed in brittle light, A stoic test I fear.

Drop down into bunkers,
Where ghosts of airmen plan and plot,
And the echoes of generals still conspire, An ancient laid to rest in ’The Tent’ nearby, Provides a more ancient reminder,
A testimony of how the might fall.

Mr. Hugo walks alone,
Was ‘The Drift’ a mirage or a game?
His vision of a city, that mind-maps will reveal,
A trick of light my friend. A trick of light I fear?

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from Sodden Dogs And Blind, Winged Horses, released February 22, 2019
Coalwood/Welbourn

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DUIR! is a musical collective based in the East Midlands, UK that utilise spoken word, music and song to bring alive the folk memories of Lincolnshire and its environs. Their inspiration stems from myths, legends, folk-tales and topographic features of this rural country.
DUIR! comprise of, Simon Brighton, Stephen Coalwood and Terry Welbourn.

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