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Reinhard Lyr Req: White wings – The Johnson Girls (6) RE: Lyr Req: White wings – The Johnson Girls 13 Sep 24


My guess from four days ago was wrong. Alison McMorland and Geordie McIntyre sang Geordie’s song White Wings on their 2007 album White Wings and noted on the recordings page of their website: "Over the years Geordie's own songs have been recorded by others and most recently White Wings by the Johnson Girls, a New York based 'maritime' group."

As Charmion wrote in another thread a few days ago that a senior should give prezzies to other people on one’s birthday, and as I've reached retirement age today, here are Geordie's lyrics as a present from me:

WHITE WINGS
Geordie McIntyre

White wings on the dark ocean
Endless tides in restless waters

Chorus (after each verse):
I am homeward-bound for Orkney
I am homeward bound

Rings of sun and standing stone
Dreams engraved on sculptured bone

Green fields where laveros rise
And teacks swing through northern skies

Mixter-maxter o’ guid folk
Will ready smile and quiet joke

Westray and Ronaldsay
Stromness, Hoy and Skara Brae

Life is light and life is shade
I don’t regret the choices made
I had to leave and work away
But knew I would return someday

Last chorus:
Now I'm homeward bound for Orkney
I am homeward bound

NOTE: This was triggered by a short, spectacular, low level flight from Kirkwall to Westray during the period of the annual Orkney Folk festival in May. In the following few days a meeting with some returning exiles gave me further inspiration.

Glossary:
V3 Laveros, skylarks.
V3 Teacks, lapwings.
V4 Mixter-Maxter, people of diverse ethnic/racial origins. (All Orkney dialect)


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