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The Miller's Daughter (feat. Eliza Carthy)

from Settler by Malcolm MacWatt

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Well I’m in love with the miller’s daughter
But the miller said I could not court her
So we would climb where the gears would hide
Words of love and her sweet sighs. My words of love and her sweet sighs

She was young but resolute
Seed could spill but not bear fruit
For the miller had made his plans
To wed his girl to a rich old man. That’s just the way it was and I could understand

CH: When the wind was up and the sails spin round
When the miller worked and the grist was ground
We’d be rolling round and around
Just me and the miller’s daughter

We carried on for a year this way
Until finally came her wedding day
So we kissed our last goodbyes
Then she became another’s wife. He was rich but he was not kind

So every time when the wind was high
And the miller he had corn to grind
We’d be up where the gears would hide
Secret love and secret sighs. You see our young love it had never died

One fateful day we were discovered
The wind had made us careless lovers
The miller climbed up into the gears
His rage and shame were crystal clear and his shotgun warned me to get the hell out of here

So I hear news from time to time
She has a son I suspect he’s mine
Her husband’s rich but he’s getting old
So I’ll just wait till his body’s cold. Then one fine windy day I’ll be going back home

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from Settler, released November 25, 2021
Vocals by Eliza Carthy

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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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