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North Atlantic Summer

from Settler by Malcolm MacWatt

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Looks like a war is going on between the ocean and the land
A violent sea is clawing at the earth with angry hands
And a cruel arctic wind is whipping up a sandstorm
That blasts across the beach in a cloud of silica and salt
I’m standing on a rocky shore my arms stretched out like wings
Seaspray burns my eyes and flying sand nips at my skin
I’m powerless against this force can’t even stand upright
I know that this is what the song of god must sound like

CH: In a couple of hours the wind will drop
and the sun will turn the sea from grey to green
And the sky will go from black to blue
And a golden light shines on the mountain peaks
Then the sun will run away and hide
Behind a thundercloud that’s darkening the sky
And a wind blows up to make you shiver
This is a North Atlantic summer

Somewhere high in a shady holler snow defies the rising sun
Clinging on against the odds for another winter still to come
And down below the broom turns from green to yellow blossom
Vanilla fragrance sweet and heavy in the air so warm
But the waters all run deep and cold from streams of melting ice
Take the plunge and you’ll come up for air with your skin on fire
And all too soon long daylight hours shorten and cloud over
And as the sun sets lower in the sky winter’s shadow grows longer

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from Settler, released November 25, 2021

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“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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