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The Old Churchyard

from Awake Arise : A Winter Album by Lady Maisery

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    Beautifully presented with full lyrics, poems, recipes and illustrations, this 17 track album comes from an unmissable festive collaboration between two of the English folk scene's most inventive acts: trio Lady Maisery and duo Jimmy Aldridge & Sid Goldsmith. 'Awake Arise' celebrates the riches of varied winter traditions from the British Isles and further afield and reflects on the hope and resilience in folksong that can bring us closer together through the darkest season.

    A companion to the live show, their debut album features traditional songs, folk carols, spoken word and newly written music to galvanize and brighten this darkest season. Awake Arise is a warm gift to the wintertime from five of the most engaging and celebrated performers on the English folk scene. True to the reputations of both acts as out-spoken voices on the folk scene, this collection is also a rallying cry to embrace the power of collective endeavor as a vital support during times of hardship and loneliness. In this most uncertain of winters, Awake Arise is more than just a great night out; these are essential songs which remind us who we are and why we matter to each other.

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A song that brings together the earthliness and comfort found in a grassy churchyard with the ground-shaking ascension to heaven that those sacred spaces represent. Originally a hymn that has since entered the oral folk singing tradition in America.


From the singing of Almeda Riddle of the Ozark Mountains region in Arkansas, with some lines from ‘The Christian Psalmist’ by Silas W

Leonard and A D Fillmore. Louisville, KY, (1854). (Roud 3386).

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Come, come with me, to the old churchyard

I so well know those paths 'neath the soft green sward

Friends slumber in there that we want to regard

We will trace out their names in the old churchyard



Mourn not for them, for their trials are o'er

Oh why weep for those who will weep no more?

For sweet is their sleep, though cold and hard

Their pillows may be in the old churchyard



I know it seems vain when our friends depart

To breathe kind words to a broken heart

And I know that the joy of life is marred

When we follow lost friends to the old churchyard



But were I at rest ‘neath yonder tree

Oh, why would you weep, my friends, for me?

I'm so weary, so wayworn, why would you retard

The peace I seek in the old churchyard?



Why weep for me, for I'm anxious to go

To that haven of rest where no tears ever flow

And I fear not to enter that dark lonely ward

For soon I shall rise from the old churchyard



I rest in the hope, that one bright day

Sunshine will burst through these prisons of clay

And old Gabriel's trumpet and the voice of the Lord

Will wake up the dead in the old churchyard

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from Awake Arise : A Winter Album, released May 9, 2020

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Lady Maisery Sheffield, UK

In an English folk scene currently bursting with bold and innovative folk music, vocal trio Lady Maisery shine brightly.

The Guardian has called theirs "some of the most some of the most exquisite, thrilling vocal harmony work in the English folk scene".

Over the last ten years, the trio have toured widely, performing sell-out shows across the UK and Europe. ... more

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