AMONGST US by Randall Stephen Hall

Amongst Us.

By Randall Stephen Hall©

A cappella singing with drum and percussion.

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This song is a partner to the musical poem “Silent Valleys”.

Set around the end of the Nine Years War, amongst the devastation in Ulster

and the coming famine in the heart of winter.

There’s something here amongst us.

A dragon’s breath at night.

A mist upon the hedgerow

Oh come and see the light.

For out amongst the snow

The cattle’s breath is warm.

For we are just so cold now.

Oh save us all from harm.

Cold birds upon the branches.

And the crows are flying free.

The blackness of their feathers.

So full of chivalry.

There’s no honour in the crops.

There’s no honour in the ground.

No light here in my home

For everyone has gone.

Chorus,

Just silence in my valleys.

Just silence in the fields.

Silence in the villages

With bells that never peel.

The horsemen are amongst us.

There’s drumming in the hills.

I’m hungry and I’m thirsty

With only blood to spill.

So we’ve taken to the roddens

With a child amongst the woods.

He looks at me with wonder.

He thinks that I am good.

With a little food and magic.

I’ll keep us safe and warm.

Oh save us from the shadows

Who ring the loud alarm.

Chorus.

There’s a queen who lives in London

And she thinks she knows my name.

She hammers us like coinage

All for the king of Spain.

Ah, the devil’s in the detail

And it’s there for you to see.

The lives of this wee corner

You’ve taken all from me.

Chorus.