Name: Leave It In The Ground
Duration: P00H02M57S
Description: Part of The Hourglass Trilogy of songs with an environmental theme that featured on the album 'Emergency Lullabies'. Each of the three songs was released as a download single during lockdown. 'Leave It In The Ground' was written by Neil McCartney and honours the sacrifice of the miners in towns (and families) like ours, yet looks to the future and the potential of cleaner energy and safer lives!

Leave It In The Ground

from Let The Music Speak For Itself by Merry Hell

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Part of The Hourglass Trilogy of songs with an environmental theme that featured on the album 'Emergency Lullabies'. Each of the three songs was released as a download single during lockdown. 'Leave It In The Ground' was written by Neil McCartney and honours the sacrifice of the miners in towns (and families) like ours, yet looks to the future and the potential of cleaner energy and safer lives!

lyrics

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 Let The Music Speak For Itself, released May 12, 2023
Words & 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 4

The Evron Centre

Filey, UK
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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