Name: Too close to the wind
Duration: P00H04M02S
Description: The learnt this cover from Cherrington and Ward. We had played one of our own Northants songs and they introduced us to this one. It was written by Stuart Marson and covers the story of the 'Culworth gang' they were a notorious band of robbers and highwaymen, until they were unltimately betrayed.

Too close to the wind

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The learnt this cover from Cherrington and Ward. We had played one of our own Northants songs and they introduced us to this one. It was written by Stuart Marson and covers the story of the 'Culworth gang' they were a notorious band of robbers and highwaymen, until they were unltimately betrayed.

lyrics

Farewell to you, my faithful Nancy
And a thousand times adieu;
For the constable comes up from Brackley Market
And a hundred volunteers too.
No more will we hide in the forest
For fear they might run us to ground
For the wild sea, we'd sailed upon it
Too close to the wind.

For twenty years, we have roved the highways
Of Northamptonshire.
From Daventry* down to the southern byways
We robbed both the rich and the poor.
For ofttimes our families were starving
And the highway it kept them alive,
So the wild sea, we sailed upon it
Too close to the wind.

Tonight I lie in a darkened dungeon
Condemned on the gallows to die,
While the man who gave us away is only
Bound for Australia.
No man could be found to defend us
Naught but abuse came our way,
For the wild sea, we'd sailed upon it
Too close to the wind.

The clouds they rise over Northampton market,
And the crowds pour into the town,
And the people will throng in the streets until sunset,
'Til the hangman cuts us down.
And fifty children of Culworth
Their fathers are taken away,
For the wild sea they sailed upon it
Too close to the wind.

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from Fortune and Folly, released March 6, 2019
Original song by Stuart Marson.

Arrangement - Gary Painting

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