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Thread #164459   Message #3935370
Posted By: Domdaniel
05-Jul-18 - 03:25 AM
Thread Name: Lyr ADD: 'When/If We had the Land!'
Subject: Lyr Req: 'When/If We had the Land!'
So I'm working through the list of songs I got at a camp last week, trying to learn all the good ones, but there are one or two I can't find ANYWHERE (which is sort of why I joined MC in the first place).

So I'm requesting any information anyone has on this: a triumphal sounding ballad about taking back the for 'us'/'we'. Each verse was a description of the ways of life/activities which were practised/would result 'when/if we had the land' (last line of each verse). I can only remember one couplet from it, the last two lines of a verse:

"and we'd take what we need and we'd let it grow back / If we had the land!"

Unsurprisingly the song was called 'When we had the Land' by everyone who referred to it.

I realise this is a bit of a long shot, with little to go on, but no-one said folk music was easy! Tune really swings so I'd really like to find it again.

Cheers everyone.