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The Tinkerman's Daughter

from Through The Morning by Tell Tale Tusk

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The wee birds were lining the bleak autumn branches
Preparing to fly to some far sunny shore
When the tinkers made camp at the bend in the river
On the way from the horse show in Ballinasloe

The harvest being over the farmer went walking
Along the Feale River that bordered his land
And twas there he first saw her, twixt firelight and water
The Tinkerman's daughter, The Red Headed Ann.


Next morning he rose from a night without sleeping
He went straight to her father and made his claim known.
In a pub in Listowel they worked out a bargain
For the Tinker a pony: for the daughter a home.

Where trees shed their shadows along the Feale River
The Tinker and farmer inspected the land
And a white gelding pony was the price they agreed on
For the Tinkerman’s daughter, The Red Headed Ann.

With the wedding soon over the tinkers departed
They were eager to head on south down the road
But the crunch of the iron-shod wheels on the gravel
Was as bitter to her as the way she’d been sold.

Yet she tried hard to please him – she did all his bidding
She slept in his bed and she worked on the land
But the walls of that cabin pressed tighter and tighter
On the Tinkerman’s daughter, The Red Headed Ann.


As white as the hands of the priest or the hangman
The snow spread its blanket the next Christmas round
When the Tinkerman’s daughter slipped out from the bedside
Turned her back on the land and her face to the town.

It was said someone saw her at dusk that same evening
She was making her way down to Lyreacrompane
But that was the last time the settled folk saw her
The Tinkerman’s daughter, The Red Headed Ann.

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from Through The Morning, released October 11, 2017
Trad/Arr Tell Tale Tusk

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Tell Tale Tusk London, UK

Tell Tale Tusk weave spellbinding and award-winning vocal harmonies around melodious instrumentals to reimagine folktales old and give light to folktales new.

Tell Tale Tusk’s take on folk is boundlessly creative: as well as being inventive interpreters of music from around the British Isles, the ensemble are prolific writers, adding their distinctive and astute voices to modern day folksong. ... more

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