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Three Metres Below

from Incest And Morris Dancing by Jon Horne

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Probably the first folk song to be written in metric measures.

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There’s a wall over there to keep out the sea
The soil and the seed from washing away
Three metres down in a sugar beet field
I can’t speak the language, no one knows my name

They lock all the doors when the night shift comes in
To keep us from running, but where would we go?
We're already drinking, and thinking of home
But we all smell of fear, three metres below

You learn to be quiet when you're ten to a room
You rise with the moon; the morning's so cold
Your clothes are all stolen, ragged and old
You’ve been bought and sold, three metres below

It's breakfast in Boston at the Three Lions cafe
Cold English eyes are staring our way
We still have our pride, we don't look away
Don't look away, don't look away

Then onto the flatbed and back to the fields
Shoulder the wheel all night and all day
You don't see your pay, it goes straight to the masters
But none of this matters, three metres below

I keep seeing faces that I knew from before
When I ran from the law on all sides of the border
Now I'm taking orders and counting the change
Here comes the rain, three metres below

Then it's breakfast in Boston at the Three Lions cafe
Cold English eyes are staring our way
We still have our pride, we don't look away
Don't look away, don't look away

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from Incest And Morris Dancing, released June 24, 2014

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Jon Horne Edinburgh, UK

Chronicling the folibles of the age via the medium of contemporary folk song since 2005.

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