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Migrant (2024 remaster)

from Latest Waxing (2024 remaster) by Henry Sparks

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Migrant

Three of us died on the train today
One fell chasing a truck
Some curse their gods
Others just curse their luck
We ask around for David
People say that he’s gone
Gone to meet his maker
Or travelling clean away
Far and away over and away

Freedom’s a queen finest I’ve seen
Freedom’s a lover careless and free
Freedom appears calling me home
Those longest last few miles
This day next day someday soon
Lonely scared far from home

I ran down the fenceline
It’s all that we ever do
Searching out the weakness
Trying to find the way through
A lark rose up beside me
Climbing into the air
Rose up singing beside me
Climbing into the air
Higher and away over and away

Freedom’s a queen finest I’ve seen
Freedom’s a lover careless and free
Freedom appears calling me home
Those longest last few miles
This day next day someday soon
But who will see that my grave is kept clean
But who will see that my grave is kept clean

Guitar & Vocal: Henry Sparks


Henry Sparks © 2015

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from Latest Waxing (2024 remaster), released August 2, 2016
Thanks to the musicians who worked on the 'Latest Waxing' project: Catriona Bryce, Chris Burn, Alan Cook, Sue Hudson, Anthony Johnson, Alan Prosser, Jef Reynolds, and Julie Walkington.

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Henry Sparks Canterbury, UK

HENRY SPARKS lives in England, plays guitar, writes and sings songs.
His music is informed by experience as a farm hand, pizza slinger, carpenter, architect and lecturer.
 Folk - English and American - and a fascination with song-writing have driven his playing and creativity. He now makes music locally with Canterbury legends The Country Counts, and plays in or out at any opportunity. ... more

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