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Shift to Sky​/​Fisherman's Wife

from Water, Hops, and Grains by Rovers Way

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“Go, Move, Shift” by Ewan Mc Coll,
“Ballad of Serenity” by Joss Whedon

lyrics

Born in the middle of the afternoon
In a horsedrawn carriage on the old A5
The big twelve wheeler shook my bed
You can't stay here the policeman said
You'd better get born in some place else
So move along, get along, move along, get along
Go, move, shift

Born in the common by a building site
Where the ground was rutted by the trail of wheels
The local Christian said to me
"You'll lower the price of property"
You'd better get born in some place else
So move along, get along, move along, get along
Go, move, shift

Mary Joyce was living at the side of the road
No halting place and no fixed abode.
The vigilantes came to the Darndale site
And they shot her son in the middle of the night.
Sayin' you'd better get born in some place else
So move along, get along, move along, get along
Go, move, shift

Six in the morning out in Inchicore
The guards came through the wagon door.
John Maughan was arrested in the cold
A travelling boy just ten years old.
Oh you'd better get born in some place else
So move along, get along, move along, get along
Go, move, shift

Take my love, take my land
Take me where I cannot stand
I don't care, I'm still free
Cause you can't take the sky from me
Take me out into the black
Tell 'em I ain't comin' back
You can burn the land, and boil the sea
But you can't take the sky from me

Wagon, tent or starship born
Last month, last year or in far off days
Born here or a thousand miles away
There's always men nearby who'll say
That you'd better get born in some place else
move along, get along, move along, get along
Go, move, shift

Yes you'd better get born in some place else
move along, get along, move along, get along
Go, move, shift

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from Water, Hops, and Grains, released July 6, 2018

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