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Luskville Wedding Song

from Corbeau Blanc, Corbeau Noir by Brimstone Rhine

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I wrote this song for my friend Amal El-Mohtar, on the occasion of her marriage to Stu West. Amal and her family were all great patrons and benefactors in this whole process. I have collaborated with Amal musically in our Banjo Apocalypse Crinoline Troubadours project, and it was a great honor to be able to sing this at her wedding. I interviewed both her and her husband before writing it, but separately, so I could have the facts of their meeting and wooing straight. Witches and all.

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He's an inner city boy
And Devonshire is strange
Alien and ancient
Resistant to change
Dorset to the east
Cornwall to the west
Bounded in the north
By Somerset

Do you like me, she asks
Will you keep me awhile
And the graveyard is lit
By the sun on her smile
Do you like me enough
Will you see me again?
As he answers her now
So he answered her then

Insha'Allah, Insha'allah
The words of her baba
Auxilio divino, the cry of the land
I'll see you whenever
I'll love you forever
And if you'll just ask me
I'll give you my hand

Here there be lions
And ghosts in the trees
Castles and fields
And speeding RVs
He drives all through Dartmoor
To meet her by noon
But Chagford, he thinks
Might as well be Brigadoon

Do you like me, she asks
Will you keep me awhile
And the graveyard is lit
By the sun on her smile
Do you like me enough
Will you see me again?
As he answers her now
So he answered her then

Insha'Allah, Insha'allah
The words of her baba
Auxilio divino, the cry of the land
I'll see you whenever
I'll love you forever
And if you'll just ask me
I'll give you my hand

So they kissed on the tombstones
Where grave mosses clung
They kissed in the ruins
Where three witches hung
From Chagford to Glasgow
To London's great throng
In Luskville they married
And heard there this song

Do you like me, she asks
Will you keep me awhile
And the graveyard is lit
By the sun on her smile
Do you like me enough
Will you see me again?
As he answers her now
So he answered her then

Insha'Allah, Insha'allah
The words of her baba
Auxilio divino, the cry of the land
I'll see you whenever
I'll love you forever
And if you'll just ask me
I'll give you my hand

credits

from Corbeau Blanc, Corbeau Noir, released July 13, 2018
C. S. E. Cooney (vocals)
Jeremy Cooney (guitar)
Stefan Dollak (flutefair)

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