Name: Leave It In The Ground
Duration: P00H02M57S
Description: A raucous look at the use of cleaner and safer energy as both a way forward and a means of honouring the sacrifices of the past. Features percussion by Andrew, using a hammer on a home-made anvil, fashioned from a length of railtrack!

Leave It In The Ground

from Emergency Lullabies by Merry Hell

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The 6th album of joyful folk-rock from Merry Hell Track Listing: 1Go Down Fighting 2Leave It In The Ground 3Three Little Lions 4Handsome Sally 5Sister Atlas 6Sailor 7Beyond The Call 8Violet 9Younger Than You Were 10The Green Hills Of Home 11I Don't Want To Be Cool 12We Are Different, We Are One 13Moonlight Parade 14Emergency Lullaby (Wasting Time) Merry Hell are: Andrew Kettle: Vocals Virginia Kettle: Vocals & Guitar Bob Kettle: Mandolin & Bouzouki John Kettle: Guitars Nick Davies: Bass Lee Goulding: Keyboards & Banjo Neil McCartney: Fiddle & Backing Vocals Andy Jones: Drums All members of Merry Hell contributed to backing vocals on this album. Merry Hell were joined by Simon Care, who played Melodeon on I Don't Want To Be Cool. ‘Beyond The Call’ & ‘We Are Different, We Are One’ feature the massed voices of The Key Workers Chorus and The Social Isolation Choir. Our thanks go to each and every one of you. ‘Sailor’ was written for Bob ‘Buck’ Taylor, a former stoker in The Royal Navy. He was buried at sea in 2018. Sail on forever, Buck. ‘Sister Atlas’ is dedicated to Greta Thunberg. ‘Handsome Sally’ is dedicated to Karen and Richard. Emergency Lullabies was recorded, engineered and produced by John Kettle at The Music Projects, Wigan and remotely at band member’s homes, except for ‘Moonlight Parade’, which was produced by Neil McCartney and John Kettle. Cover Concept and all artwork by Neil McCartney. Neilmccartney10@gmail.com The Merry Hell Crew: Merchandise by Julie McKiernan and Mike (Jonah) Jones, occasionally augmented or substituted by Denise Kettle). Website by Julian Watts at JoolzDesign.com Cat-herding, breakfast arranging and spiritual guidance by Damian Liptrot. We would like to thank our families, friends and all you good people who help keep the Merry Hell charabanc moving on our mighty long way down Folk and Roll. We started recording Emergency Lullabies in the Autumn of 2019 and finished it during the Lockdown of 2020.

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A raucous look at the use of cleaner and safer energy as both a way forward and a means of honouring the sacrifices of the past. Features percussion by Andrew, using a hammer on a home-made anvil, fashioned from a length of railtrack!

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Leave it in the ground (words and music by Neil McCartney)

We've got the wind to blow and the sun to shine
to turn this great machine around
But there are those who still deny
we're running out of sacred borrowed time
Now we'll have to find another way,
another way to ride the rails.
We'll have to find another way,
another way to light the trail.
So for all our children leave it in the ground
With the dead who built this town.

Ships set sail to catch the whale, Men to win a whale bone pin.
Then they drilled into the soil, Came spilling out black oil
Now that dirty old town turned into
a monster fueled on profit, power and greed.
A legacy to leave our children's children with no air to breathe.
So for all our children leave it in the ground
With the dead who built this town.

Well it was hard graft through dark days
with pickaxe and canary underground.
Up above they cleared the trees
for slaughterhouse and belching factory.
But there'll be hurricanes and tidal waves and famine
as the devil blows his horn
Our mother earth that once was grand,
fractured, pillaged, ravaged, raped and torn.
We'll have to find another way,
so rally up and hoist the sails

So for all our children leave it in the ground
with the dead who built this town.

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from Emergency Lullabies, released November 8, 2020
Words and Music by Neil McCartney

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Merry Hell Wigan, UK

Multi-award winning Merry Hell offer joyful, uplifting folk-rock, with a message for troubled times. Native to the North- West of England, the 8-piece musical charabanc was built from the embers of the much loved folk-punk band The Tansads, developing a life and feel all of its own. Through 6 albums and hundreds of gigs, they offer hope & light in our troubled times. ... more

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May 10

Civic Hall

Holmfirth, UK
May 13

Nantwich Town Football Club

Nantwich, UK
May 23

Hutton Rudby Village Hall

Yarm, UK
May 25

Darwen Live

Darwen, UK
May 31

Coombes Farm

Lancing, UK
Aug 25

Civic Hall

Cottingham, UK
Sep 5

Katie Fitzgerald's

Stourbridge, UK
Oct 27

St Mary's Centre

Chester, UK
Nov 22

Chelmsford Social Club

Chelmsford, UK
Dec 6

Harwell Village Hall

Didcot, UK

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