Name: BURMA ROAD
Duration: P00H03M06S
Description: I composed this song after driving for the first time on the Burma road on the Otterburn ranges.

BURMA ROAD

by James Tait

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I composed this song after driving for the first time on the Burma road on the Otterburn ranges.

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Purple hills stretch far and wide
Past Holystone and Lanternside
'Pon the breeze, old voices,
From an age without law.
Worldly things gan from the heed,
Atween the Coquet and the Reed
Fine in Summer, Winter, worse than raw.

To Rochester and Otterburn,
A sea of heather, pine and fern,
The distant guns are firing as
The shells wait to explode
Hands upon the steering wheel,
A certain sadness I can feel,
For every crime upon the Burma road.
Distant slopes of Cheviot,
Sing of a time that we forgot,
Vanished in the watta,
Gon like daisies in the cold.
Echoed in this barren land,
Old voices of Northumberland
Tell how their beloved ground was sold.

For fifty miles or maybe more,
The guns keep firing by the score
Flares light up the sky, for many years,
They've glowed and glowed.
Yet, the lonely skylark cries
High in Border Reiver skies
"Peace be with you
On the Burma road."

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released August 7, 2022
Words and music by James Tait.

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James Tait Morpeth, UK

Singer/songwriter/
Northumbrian dialect poet/freelance instrument teacher/wedding pianist/composer. jamestaitmusic.com

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