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Up In The Morning Early

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 of the wintery air, cold and raw, tormenting early risers.

A traditional chorus, collected by Robert Burns.
The verses are his own.
Set to the traditional air Cold and Raw.

Includes a reading by Laurie Lee, taken from Village Christmas: And Other Notes on the English Year

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Cold blows the wind from east to west
The drift is driving sairly
So loud and shrill I hear the blast
I’m sure that it’s winter fairly

Up in the morning’s not for me
Up in the morning early
When all the hills are covered with snow
I’m sure that it’s winter fairly

The birds sit chattering in the thorn
All day they fare but sparely
And long’s the night from evening to morn
I’m sure that it’s winter fairly

Up in the morning’s not for me
Up in the morning early
When all the hills are covered with snow
I’m sure that it’s winter fairly



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The Christmas Road





“Outside there is no surprise in the coldness of the morning. It lies on the valley like a frozen goose.



Taking the air in my teeth I feel the old excitement, the raw echoes of an ancestral world, crammed with bull-headed mammoths and tusk toothed tigers, of flint spears and boasting in caves.



Today is the winter as it always was, and when it wasn't it was not remembered. Forgotton, now, are the small freaks of weather, the offbeat heatwaves and wet-warm Decembers that have cropped up now and then in the past.



Winter was always like this since the beginning of winters, since the first man learned how to sneeze.



Pushing the cold before me like a sheet of tin, I set off up the Christmas road."





Laurie Lee
Village Christmas: And Other Notes on the English Year

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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.
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