Ewan McLennan - Roll On

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A regular and much-loved face on the Knockengorroch bill, Ewan McLennan has come to be known as a guitarist at the forefront of his generation.
Roll On was inspired by Ewan’s experiences of Knockengorroch over many years.
Taking time out of the festival one year to reflect on the goings on, Ewan sat down with his guitar and penned the contemplative folk song. It was later recorded at Ben Capp Studio in Bristol.
The acoustic track will feature as part of Sounds Like Knockengorroch, a lockdown album paying tribute to the unique festival normally held in the beautifully secluded Carsphairn hills in south west Scotland, and the musicians who are part of it.

lyrics

Keep the bottle going round
Let the whisky flow
A tear for the sober and a health for the road
Chalk up the bow
Play a tune that we all know

Once again we’re gathered here
How the year has spun
Shadows have fallen like a shawl around the sun
And every face I look upon is as new as it is old

Roll on
Roll on
Roll on
Roll on

The girl with the gold and the feathers in her hair
Was down by the water coming up for air
As she rose and she wandered
All the valley sang

The tales that we told in the chalk yellow sun
Are fallen from grace now the nights coming on
Deep down in the blue light
The sky’s rolling in

Roll on etc

Each of us a traveller we’re all just passing through
Soon those shifting winds will see us spinning out of view
Sending us a wandering
Till the next scene unfolds

The marks that these moments lay upon our skin
Wood smoke and the firelight twisting in the rain
We’ll cast them in the river
And watch them as they roll

Roll on etc

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from Sounds Like Knockengorroch, track released June 11, 2020

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