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Playing with Sand

from This Land by Kelly Oliver

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Track 11 from the debut album from Kelly Oliver... listen out for the little surprise at the end :)

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There were five brothers and a baby girl,
they lived respectably in the Eastern part of the world.
Their father worked his way to the head of the railway.
Their mother, she was in a class of her own.

The boys were growing older, the boys were growing tall.
The father knew they'd have to leave for his boys to succeed at all.
'We'll have to leave our home, travel across the world,
we'll have to leave behind everything we know.'

'What did you do in school? You played with sand?
That's not the reason we brought you to this land.'

And so they sold their home, sold their silver and gold.
They said goodbye to their servants and their friends of old.
The father left his job, he knew his boys would never
have the chance to work like him if they didn't leave there forever.

'What did you do in school? You played with sand?
That's not the reason we brought you to this land.'

The boys came home from school and told their ma about their day.
They said 'We sang some songs and they found games for us to play.'
'But you know how to write, and you know how to read,
and you know how to count', cried the mother in disbelief.

'They wouldn't let us write, they wouldn't let us read.
“You don't know how to count, you're just a child from overseas.”
The other boys in class are just as old as we but
they don't know how to write, they don't know how to read.'

'What did you do in school? You played with sand?
That's not the reason we brought you to this land.'

'They don't think you can write? Write the scriptures on the board.
They don't think you can count? Count to a thousand or more.
They don't think you can read? Show the books you read for fun.
The won't make fools of my sons. They won't think fools of my sons.'

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from This Land, released October 27, 2014

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Folkstock Records UK

Boutique label releasing handpicked singer songwriters from the Folkstock fold.
Most engineering, mixing and mastering by Lauren Deakin Davies.
Except Bright Season by Bright Season - released 31st May 2014
The F Spot by Friends of Folkstock - release date 17th May 2014
Passing the Baton - Swarb and Folkstock friends - 5th April 2014
Debut EP release from Kelly Oliver on 26.11.13. Far From Home
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