The road t o the bum Is pails, gossips, gray linen. The road to the shore I s salt and tar. We call the track to the peats The kestrel road. The road t o the kirk Is a road of silences. Ploughmen's feet Have beaten a road to the lamp and barrel. And the road from the shop Is loaves, sugar, paraffin, newspapers, gossip. Tinkers and shepherds Have the whole round hill for a road.
The Kestrel Road
Song Cycle by Peter Maxwell Davies (1934 - 2016)
2. Roads [sung text not yet checked]
Language: English
Text Authorship:
- by George Mackay Brown (1921 - 1996), "Roads"
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