Name: MY BONNIE COQUETDALE
Duration: P00H03M40S
Description: I was commissioned by the Rothbury Traditional Music Festival committee to write this song to be performed by my children's choirs in the summer of 2023. I have recorded it myself to show what Coquetdale means to me personally.

MY BONNIE COQUETDALE

by James Tait

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I was commissioned by the Rothbury Traditional Music Festival committee to write this song to be performed by my children's choirs in the summer of 2023. I have recorded it myself to show what Coquetdale means to me personally.

lyrics

There is a place where the river sings into my very soul,
Calling me home if I wander away,
Back to the meadows where I used to play.
There is a place where the air is sweet,
A secret I won't share,
Because it's the only place I can be free,
I'm coming home to where green fields are waiting for me.

I'm coming home, I'm coming home
To the place that makes heaven look pale.
I'm coming home, I'm coming home
To my bonnie Coquetdale.

I hear the hills of Simonside whispering me back home
Through those mists that go back in time,
Through those church bells as they chime.
I smell those beautiful fragrances down by the stepping stones
And though all words have been taken from me,
I'm coming home to where green fields are waiting for me.

I'm coming home, I'm coming home
To the place that makes heaven look pale.
I'm coming home, I'm coming home
To my bonnie Coquetdale.
I'm coming home, I'm coming home
To the place that makes heaven look pale.
I'm coming home, I'm coming home
To my bonnie Coquetdale.

credits

released September 16, 2023
Recorded at Coquetdale Music Trust, Thropton, Northumberland. Engineered by Adam Forster.

Piano, acoustic guitar, vocals, bass guitar- James Tait.
Drums- Tim Carr
Electric guitar- Ally Lee

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James Tait Morpeth, UK

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

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