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Sleeping Beauty
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A few lines on paper. Nothing more. More eerie than faery.
singer songwriter acoustic folk british guitarist song celtic traditional fingerstyle scottish scotland guitar kelso
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Solo singer-songwriter and tunesmith playing British fingerstyle steel and nylon string guitar, and historic instruments. Scots and Irish influences.
I've been writing and playing songs and tunes since teenage years in folk clubs and pubs. I co-organise the Kelso Friday night live music sessions at the Cross Keys (hosted singaround 7.45-10pm) and Cobbles Inn (10-12pm open mic with The Cobbles Band) with the help of many friends. All welcome! Visit us at kelsofolkandlive co uk. It is worth clicking on the tab because the sound quality of my tracks is far higher than the auto player on this page. Many can be streamed or downloaded at 320KBps and the enhancement for solo guitar/voice far exceeds the benefit you get for highly compressed band recordings. My recordings are full dynamic, not compressed. Just select Hi-Fi for the first song, and an MP3 high bitrate window will open - you will still get a sequence of songs. Most of my downloads are free, but some 320KBps tracks are paid-for. These are selected because they make up my main instrumental album. I now have a YouTube page and have started doing some video recordings for fun: @daviddkilpatrick I have mainly played Lowden guitars since 1999. I current play a 1985 S5FN (nylon string), 1986 S22 (jumbo O-size mahogany/cedar), and 1995 S32 (small body rosewood/spruce). I also play my own 1997-built Martin 'kit' Grand Auditorium rosewood/spruce, a Sigma OM-T, Furch Little Jane, Tacoma Papoose, Guild 8-string baritone, Vintage V880 parlour guitar and Gordon Giltrap signature model, a Troubadour mahogany/spruce classical and an Adam Black 12-string. And that's just the guitars... also viola, mandolin, mandola, waldzither, bouzouki, Appalachian dulcimer, low D whistle, keyboards.
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Peak #36
Peak in subgenre #3
Author
David Kilpatrick
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David Kilpatrick
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March 22, 2011
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MP3 3.5 MB 153 kbps 3:09
Story behind the song
I've got many scraps like this; a few verses, or a line or two, and a simple setting for them. They are not really complete songs, just interludes or pictures to hang on your musical wallpaper. Anyway, I got a nice secondhand 12-string guitar and I wanted to try it for recording, and this one seemed to suit it. Originally recorded in November 2000, remastered with brighter EQ and better mp3 quality in March 2011.
Lyrics
She sleeps where the roses hide her Silent shadows round her gather Gentle ghosts they walk beside her No mortal man may have her Be she quick or be she dead Call it what you care Draw the veil from off her head Kiss her if you dare Though she sleeps a thousand years Your kiss will never wake her Though you weep a thousand tears Your arms will never take her Be she quick or be she dead Call it what you care Draw the veil from off her head Kiss her if you dare
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