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Dark Harvest (feat Nathan Bell)

from Dark Harvest by Malcolm MacWatt

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The Scottish island of Gruinard was secretly used during WW2 to test biological weapons and as a result lay contaminated with deadly Anthrax spores for decades. Considered too expensive by Westminster to clean up, it wasn’t until a group calling itself the Dark Harvest Commandos took direct action by placing samples of Gruinard’s soil at a Tory Party conference and at the Porton Down defence site that the island was finally restored back to health. Branded terrorists at the time, the identities of the “commandos” have never been disclosed.

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On the road to Ullapool from Gairloch on Scotland’s western shore
There lies a wee dark island where seeds of death were sown
In Gruinard’s lonely silence, war crimes were conceived
For clouds of doom like a plague of Egypt to float down on a German breeze
Men in masks from Porton Down test bombs of mass destruction
Then they burned the sheep that died to prove the weapon worked to Winston’s satisfaction

CH: Dark Harvest, Dark Harvest, Dark Harvest
You reap what you sow from a Dark Harvest

Now thank god the war was won without biological warfare being deployed
But spores of death lay sleeping in the ground in Gruinard’s poisoned soil
Scottish land lay quarantined and deemed too dangerous to set foot on
Too much expense to make it safe so for decades the land was forgotten (until the)

Eco-warfare, eco-terror call it what you will but without their intervention
Gruinard would be off limits still
They dug the soil and sent a sample back from whence it came and finally the government cleaned up the dirty secret mess they made
Now Gruinard’s safe for all to walk again, Anthrax Island, Isle of Death no longer is her name
And to this day no one revealed the names of those compelled
But Gruinard knows and Gruinard keeps her secrets to herself

And here’s to the Dark Harvest Commando, who they were only Gruinard knows
Sometimes direct action is the only way to go when dark forces rule and the powers that be ignore
And one generation’s terrorist or political prisoner is the next generation’s activist or politician
You reap what you sow

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from Dark Harvest, released January 25, 2024
Guitars & Spoken Word: Nathan Bell
Piano: Phil Dearing

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Malcolm MacWatt London, UK

“MacWatt will doubtless be considered among the best of the new breed of folksingers and songwriters, who speak of the past as a way to perhaps understand it and move forward” Stephen Rapid, Lonesome Highway

“He shines as a singer and he shines as an interpreter of the eternal folk songbook,” Tom Brosseau, The Great American Folk Show, North Dakota ... more

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