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The Gypsy Switch
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This song tells of the old Gypsy path through Britain known as the Gypsy switch.
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A bright light in these dark times
The Magic Ox Band were a spin off of the Magic Ox Theatre Group - a zany bunch of performers who used to do wild things at the old Albion Fayres. Although the Band split up long ago, I feel the songs we did back then still deserve a listening today. Folk never goes out of fashion - it just matures nicely :-)
Song Info
Genre
Acoustic • Acoustic Folk
Charts
Peak #998
Peak in subgenre #168
Author
Berni Armstrong
Rights
Berni Armstrong (1985)
Uploaded
November 15, 2003
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MP3 3.3 MB • 128 kbps • 0:00
Story behind the song
A classic Alternative/New Age song from the days when the Earth Mother was my inspiration and I toured the country with a Theatre Company on a horse and cart or bicycles. (Leisurely paced and seeking to tune in to all the energies of the past that our modern world has obliterated). Perhaps we were fooling ourselves, but some nights, under the stars, we really did feel we were doing HER wishes :-)
Lyrics
Gypsy Switch Walking the spiral path Bisecting the line of the winter sunrise. Walking the spiral path As if centuries had never passed by. CHORUS And all we know of those Who erected the circles of stone, Are burial rites from burnt bone and beakers, Fragments pieced together, How they lived* is ever a mystery. Tracing the zodiac. Our mother’s shape clear in the land of our birth Tracing the zodiac The centuries could never conceal CHORUS *Loved INSTRUMENTAL CHORUS *Looked Travelling the gypsy switch Drawing on power from an ancient circle Travelling the gypsy switch Centred on the womb. CHORUS *What they sung INSTRUMENTAL 2nd Chorus And all we know of those who erected Arbour low - A single skeleton, weathered white blocks, An oval ring of limestone, At the heart of the mystery, At the heart of the mystery, At the heart of the stone.
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