Shores of Amerikay

by Michael J Tinker

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released 04 May 2012
Michael J Tinker :: Vocals, Acoustic Guitar, Cigar-Box Guitar

The Incredible Washboard Pete II :: Stomp Box, Cymbal Sculptures, Tamborines, Washboard, Whisks, Avocado, Hammer, Cowbell

Katriona Gilmore :: Fiddle, Mandolin, Backing Vocals

Geth Griffith :: Double Bass, Arco Bass

John Ellis :: Piano, Backing Vocals

Recorded at Limefield Studios 10th-12th April 2012
Produced by John Ellis and Michael J Tinker
Mixed and Mastered by John Ellis
Sleeve Design by Yvonne Loughrey
Sleeve Photography by Rosie Etherington (www.rosie-etherington.co.uk)
Additional Photography by Tim Brown
Released on the Regather Music label (www.regather.net)

For more info on shows and the album go to www.michaeljtinker.com

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Track Name: Shores of Amerikay
I'm bidding farewell to the land of my youth
The home that I love so well
The mountains so grand in my own native land
I'm bidding them all farewell
With an aching heart I'll bid them adue
For tomorrow I'll sail away
Over raging foam for to reach a home
On the shores of Amerikay

It's not for the want of employment I'm going
It's not for the love of fame
That fortune bright may shine over me
And give me a glorious name
It's not for the want of employment I'm going
Over the stormy sea
But to seek a home for my own true love
On the shores of Amerikay

And when I'm bidding my last goodbye
The tears like rain will blind
When I think of my friends in my own native land
And the home that I'm leaving behind
If I should die in a foreign land
And be buried so far away
No fond mother's tears will be shed o'er my grave
On the shores of Amerikay
Track Name: Get Along Home Cindy
Where'd you get your liquor
Where'd you get your dram
Came all the way from England
To steal your pretty hand

Apple like a cherry
Cherry like a rose
How I love you Cindy
God in heaven knows

So get along home Cindy, Cindy
Get along home, Cindy, Cindy
Get along home, Cindy, Cindy
I'll marry you some day

Cindy got religion
She had it once before
She spilt it on a saturday
Upon a hardwood floor

Once I had a banjo
Every string was twine
The only tune that I could play
Was I wish that girl was mine

So get along home Cindy, Cindy
Get along home, Cindy, Cindy
Get along home, Cindy, Cindy
I'll marry you some day
So get along home Cindy, Cindy
Get along home, Cindy, Cindy
Get along home, Cindy, Cindy
I'll marry you some day

She took me to her parlour
She cooled me with her fan
She said I was the prettiest thing
In the shape of mortal man

I wish I had a needle
As fine as I could sew
I'd sew the girls to my coat-tails
And down the road I'd go

So get along home Cindy, Cindy
Get along home, Cindy, Cindy
Get along home, Cindy, Cindy
I'll marry you some day
So get along home Cindy, Cindy
Get along home, Cindy, Cindy
Get along home, Cindy, Cindy
I'll marry you some day
Track Name: Bonny Boy
The trees are growing tall my love
The grass is growing green
And many's the cruel and bitter night
That I alone have been
It is a cruel and bitter night
That I must lie alone
Oh the bonny boy is young
But he is growing

Oh Father, dearest Father,
I think you did me wrong
For to go and get me married
To one who is so young
For he is only sixteen years
And I am twenty-one
Oh the bonny boy is young
Though he is growing

Oh daughter, dearest daughter
I did not do you wrong
For to go and get you married
To one who is so young
He will be a match for you
When I am dead and gone
Oh the bonny boy is young
But he is growing

Oh Father, dearest father
I'll tell you what I'll do
I'll send my love to college
For another year or two
And all around his college cap
I'll bind a ribbon blue
For to show the other girls
That he is married

At the early age of sixteen years
He was a married man
And at the age of seventeen
The father of a son
But at the age of eighteen o'er
His grave the grass grew green
Cruel death put an end
To his growing

I'll make my love a shroud
Of the finest Holland brown
And whilst I am a-weaving it
The tears they will run down
For once I had a true-love
But now he's lying low
And I'll nurse his bonny boy
While he's growing
Track Name: Hold You Light
May I not hold you tight
So the one to whom you belong
Can hold you
Fast

And so I will love you so
As I let you go
I will love you
By holding you light

As the storm clouds gather
I feel the pain
And want to take hold
But there's nothing I can do

To think you might not be here
One day
Please be far away
It tugs at my soul
But I must let you go
Track Name: The Snowstorm
It was on a cold and winters night
When first came down the snow
I took my babe all in my arms
Not knowing where to go
Not knowing where to go

How harsh and cruel was my pa
When he turned the door on me
And how cruel to me my mothers heart
When she knowd how things would be
She knowd how things would be

O, if your daddy did but know
These things you're suffering from
He'd roll you in his arms this night
And wrap you safe and warm
Wrap you safe and warm

Come hush-a-bye my darling son
Don't you begin to cry
Your mother dear is holding you
Together we shall die
Together we shall die

We travelled on through ice and snow
Hope blown upon the wind
Would there be but one welcome heart
That would save us 'fore the end
Would save us 'fore the end

We came upon a welcome door
My babe no longer cried
I kissed his lips for one last time
And we both laid there and died
We both laid there and died
Track Name: Breathe
Watching you sleeping
I've got to remind myself to breathe
Thinking what you're dreaming
I've got to remind myself to breathe
There as you're resting
So peaceful in the night

Walking with you silently
I've got to remind myself to breathe
Lost in the moment
I've got to remind myself to breathe
Here forever
Or so it seems to me

Breathe

Speaking with your eyes
I've got to remind myself to breathe
Telling me you're suffering
I've got to remind myself to breathe
Like a pause in life
It seems to float by

Now that you're gone
I've got to remind myself to breathe
No more days with you
I've got to remind myself to breathe
And the pain it stops
The breath before it has life

Breathe
Track Name: Hammer
keep this hammer
For my brother
Cos he stole my gal
And if I see him
He'll know it
Cos he stole my gal

See this scar on my lip
And this bruise riding high
When my brother laid into me
He didn't look me in the eye

Why he does it I don't know
Beats me up, leaves me for dead
When he's my own, my own flesh and blood
A dark seed lies deep in his head

I keep this hammer
For my brother
Cos he stole my gal
And if I see him
He'll know it
Cos he stole my gal

I'll tell my tale both sad and true
When it rained I was her cover
She said I was the only one
She didn't need no other lover

It didn't take but half an hour
She'd only gone around the corner
Then he came by and she took his hand
Now they're walking some dark street together

I keep this hammer
For my brother
Cos he stole my gal
And if I see him
He'll know it
Cos he stole my gal
Track Name: It's Not Right
It's like death
Though you're still alive
And I'm still standing here
Though on my knees

I can't breathe
The pain rips through my soul
Tearing out everything
As it goes

You weren't supposed to go
That's not what you said
You cried I'll be with you
Till the day you die
But now I die
And you're gone

There's no spark
In your eyes anymore
Like there was before
Not long ago

It's not right
No you shouldn't go
Give it one more try
Before you say no

Oh you tear at my soul
And you rip out my eyes
And, no, I can't seem to sympathise
With where you stand right here
I'm down on my knees
And begging you to stay
Track Name: House Carpenter
'Well met, well met', said an old true love
'Well met, well met', said he
'I've just returned from the salt sea
And all for the love of thee'

'Come in, come in, my old true love
And have a seat by me
It's been three fourths of a long long year
Since together we have been'

'I can't come in and I can't sit down
For I've only a moment's time
They say you're married to a house carpenter
And your heart will never be mine'

'I could have married a kings daughter fair
And she would have married me
But I have forsaken her crowns of gold
And all for the love of thee'

'Now you forsake your house carpenter
And come away with me
I'll take you where the grass grows green
On the banks of the deep blue sea'

Then she picked up a bonny little boy
And kisses gave it three
Saying 'you stay here by darling little baby
And keep your pappa company'

They had not been on the ship two weeks
I'm sure it was not three
When his true love began to weep and to mourn
And she wept most bitterly

He said 'are you weeping for my silver or my gold
Are you weeping for my store
Or are you weeping for that house carpenter
Whose face you'll never sea no more'

'A curse, a curse on you sailor' she cried
'A curse, a curse' she swore
'You robbed me of my darling little boy
Whose face I'll never see no more'

They had not been on the ship three weeks
I've sure it was not four
When there came a leak in the bottom of the ship
And sank them for to rise no more
Track Name: First Do No Harm
There's nothing I can say
To stand in your way
There are no words that I know
You have control

Why are you doing this to me?
Am I not precious enough
Are there thing more important to you?
Can you not stop?

First do no harm
That's what I heard
Shouldn't we protect
Those who cannot raise their voice?

Is your time so precious to you
That you cut mine short?
Is your wealth all to be yours
When so many have shared it with you?

I'm happy here
Why do you stop my heart?
Curled, protected from the world
But in danger from your hands

First do no harm
That's what I heard
Shouldn't we protect
Those who cannot raise their voice?
Track Name: Annabel Lee
It was many, many a year ago
In a kingdom by the sea
That a maiden there lived whom you may know
By the name of Annabel Lee
That maiden she lived with no other thought
Than to love and be loved by me

I was a child and she was a child
In that kingdom by the sea
But we loved with a love that was more than love
I and my Annabel Lee
With a love that the winged seraphs of heaven
Coveted her and me

And this was the reason that long ago
In that kingdom by the sea
That a wind blew out of a cloud chilling
My beautiful Annabel Lee
So that he high born kinsman came
And bore her away from me
To shut her up in a sepulchre
In this kingdom by the sea

But our love it was stronger by far than the love
Of those older than we
And neither the angels in heaven above
Nor the demons down under the sea
Could ever dissever my soul from the soul
Of the beautiful Annabel Lee

For the moon never beams without giving me dreams
Of the beautiful Annabel Lee
And the stars never rise but I feel bright eyes
Of the beautiful Annabel Lee
And so, all the night-tide I lie down by the side
Of my darling – my darling – my life and my bride
In the sepulchre there by the sea
In her tomb by the sounding sea