The AWARD winning Poppyland Songs; Life On A Cliff Edge is now available to buy as a digital download and actual CD which comes with a copy of the original Zine all about the project including all the lyrics and photos.
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From the album and project Poppyland Songs; Life On A Cliff Edge.
Nominated for the Norfolk Arts Awards 2022 ‘Poppyland Songs’ is a musical tapestry telling the stories of life on a cliff edge through song inspired by 100 year old journals . With support from Arts Council England, Bertie gathered stories & memories from people past & present in Poppyland, North Norfolk and composed a song cycle.
There is also an accompanying podcast to this album.
This was a poem given to me whilst I was researching the project. It was written by Tom Thurlow some time in the mid 1800s. Thurlow was a shepherd in the Mundesley area and his poem is about The Mundesley Beck or River Mun, a tiny river that runs through Poppyland though few are aware of it's presence.
lyrics
Lines on the Beck
It's many years ago, they say,
Since I began to run this way
And as no water can be found
By digging deep into the ground,
To Mundesley I'm a gift divine.
Though in the eyes of few I shine.
Yet quietly I run along,
And do not mind the noisy throng
Of boys and girls who me frequent
And never ask why I was sent.
And men and women, too, are found,
Who take supplies the year all round.
And never on the bended knee
Do thank the Lord for sending me.
And some complain too when they come
That I'm not nearer to their home;
And others say I'm not so clear
As water they have seen elsewhere.
But still to duty I attend.
Whether I please them or offend;
I'm free to all, whoever will,
May all their empty vessels fill.
And still I run along the way,
And serve the people day by day,
And all the cattle I supply
That come and drink as I pass by.
And if I only stop one day,
The people are in such a way,
No water they can get for tea.
To wash their clothes they must have me.
But now no longer I must stay
And talk the precious time away;
For I've a duty to fulfil.
And so must hasten to the mill,
For there, I turn a ponderous wheel,
And grind the precious grain to meal;
I run along a darksome cell,
And lose the light I love so well.
But soon my liberty I find
And leave the horrid place behind;
I run along a darksome cell,
And lose the light I love so well.
But soon my liberty I find
And leave the horrid place behind;
I run with one triumphant boast
Into the sea, and there I'm lost.
And mixing with the briny spray,
I'm tossed about from day to day;
And so, as far as some can see,
I never more shall be set free.
But lo!! I'm drawn again on high.
And float in clouds along the sky.
And soon descend in drops of rain
To refresh the thirsty plain.
And thus a witness I would be
Of Him, who still sustaineth me.
And with a soft sweet murmur tell
The Lord has ordered all things well.
Bertie Anderson Haggart is an internationally acclaimed, award winning musician and composer. She grew up in North Norfolk
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