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Terror Time

from We For One Another by Emily Groff

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by Ewan MacColl

This song is about the traveling people of England and Scotland. “Winter—that's the terror time—no place to go nor doesn't know where to go. Doesn't know any place to go and sit. And it doesn't matter whether it's snowing or blowing. You've got to go.” (Maggie Cameron, Inverness traveling woman. Recorded in a bow tent at Cookson's field, Alyth, Perthshire, 1964.)

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Heather will fade and the bracken will die
Streams will run cold and clear
And the small birds will be goin'
And it's then you will be knowin'
That the terror time is near

Where will you go and where will you bide
Now that the work's all done
And the farmer does not need you
And the council will not heed you
And the terror time has come

The woods give no shelter, the trees they are bare
Snow falling all around
And the children they are crying
And the bed on which they're lying
Has frozen to the ground

The frost will not lift, and the stove will not draw
There's ice in the water churn
Through the mud and snow you're sloshing
Trying to do your bit of washing
And the kindling will not burn

Needing the warming of your own humankind
You draw near a town, and then
The sight of you's offending
The police they soon are sending
And you're on the road again

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from We For One Another, released November 8, 2021

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