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Headless Things

from Drome by Duir!

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In her 1936 almanac Lincolnshire Folklore, Ethel H. Rudkin reveals some strange goings on at a farm in Willoughton, Lincolnshire. The bad luck and supernatural occurrences that beset the farm seem to centre around one female farm hand – an evil vixen known as Becky L. How very peculiar.

lyrics

There is bad blood in the fields and we talk of headless things
Without legs they roll about careering into fences
They wrecked the barn and choked the plough - one even survived a stoning
Another with a face like thunder has even caused the well to cave in.

So wild they run these headless beasts that they will drive asunder
The cows won’t sleep and crops won’t yield until this foe is vanquished
But who am I to talk of things born out of superstition?
When dykes won’t flow and pigs might fly – begone this evil vixen.

There’s a needle in a haystack and bad blood in the fields
And a kind of mist that hugs the farm and phantoms do appear
“Yes, you, old devil! Yes, you my friend! It is you that made things bad”
Hung out like mackerel left to dry, they’ve even dammed our sluices.

When Becky worked the fields, weird things did occur
When Becky walked the land, strange things did appear
Begone ye devils, begone you fiends
There’s a devil in the plough.
Begone ye devils, begone you fiends
She will show you how

Pick up the axe and swing it high, for all we know; pigs might fly!

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from Drome, released September 20, 2021
Music by Stephen Coalwood
Words by Terry Welbourn

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Duir! Nottingham, UK

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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