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Drowsy Maggie

from Dark Harvest by Malcolm MacWatt

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about

The morning after the night before and a grim spin on the popular fiddle tune. It’s a sad fact that Scotland has one of the worst drug death rates in Europe. Current legislation puts money and power into the hands of criminal gangs, creating misery at every end of the drug network, while successive governments churn out the same failed policies because there isn’t the political courage to make meaningful change.

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Wake up Maggie there’s bad men coming, it’s time for us to go
They’ll have more than killing me on their mind if you’re alone

Wake up Maggie the baby’s wailing and I can’t hush his cries
I swear the bairn he knows what’s coming and he’s just as feared as I

CH: I took their money and spent it
No mercy will be showed
They told me and they meant it
They would take my body and soul

Wake up Maggie I see you dreaming of what I’ll never know
But if we’re not gone by morning Maggie then we will dream no more

Wake up Maggie your head’s still reeling, what fun we had last night
But all the drink and drugs we’re using may well cost us our lives

County lines I crossed for them with substances controlled
But drugs and money I stole from them, now I can’t pay what I owe

Wake up Maggie please wake up Maggie, it’s time for us to go
Wake up Maggie please wake up Maggie, your body’s so pale and cold

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from Dark Harvest, released January 25, 2024
Piano: Phil Dearing
Ceilidh fiddle: Gillian MacWatt

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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
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