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Red Kite Rising (Swill's Surprise Session)

from SWILL'S SURPRISE SESSION (JAN 20TH 2022) by Phil ‘Swill’ Odgers

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    This Swill's Surprise Session CD brings you 52 minutes of chat and live acoustic versions of new and rarely played songs from The Men They Couldn't Hang, Swill solo and extended TMTCH family.

    It's a basic no frills recording livestreamed from my kitchen and originally broadcast on 20th January 2022 as a follow on to a series of Covid 'lockdown' gigs. This session includes a ukulele version of Red Kite Rising - a song TMTCH will be recording as the first track towards a new album.

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    1. Red Kite Rising
    2. The Snow is Falling
    3. Rain, Steam and Speed
    4. The Men Behind The Guns
    5. The Day After
    6. Whole Session (33.47)

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Written by Paul Simmonds as a tribute to Stefan Cush. TMTCH are recording a full version of this in a session on 12th & 13th Feb as part of an EP building up to our next album. Any proceeds from this Swill's Session version will buy the band a drink!

Please go over to TMTCH Bandcamp page to preorder that EP and help contribute towards recording costs:
thementheycouldnthang.bandcamp.com/album/red-kite-rising-ep

lyrics

Red Kite Rising
Words by Paul Simmonds

All across the land the alarms were ringing
Sirens sounded & the clouds looked down
The birds in the hills were flipping & singing
Something’s coming
Something’s humming
We’re not going to sleep tonight

So here comes Stefan, out of Llangathen
Stretching in the wind like a willow tree
Brushing off the ashes, looking at the fascists
‘I never stayed down
In the Towy ground
Are you coming downtown with me?’ (Yeah!)

Hail! Hail! Red Kite High!
Over the river & up in the sky
All you tyrants are out of time
Look on the blue horizon
Then you see the Red Kite rising...

‘Hey old friend one thing to remember
Some of us are born to blow on the embers
Live your life in pleasure & splendour
They never could kill
Old Joe Hill
And we’re not going to sleep tonight

We’ll fight to the end & we wont surrender
In the cities & the towns with the Gibson & the Fender
Johnny B Goode’s gonna love you tender
Whatever the cost
Whatever the loss
We’re not going to sleep tonight’

Hail! Hail! Red Kite High!
Over the river & up in the sky
All you tyrants are out of time
Look on the blue horizon
Then you see the Red Kite rising...

All across the land where the people do assemble
Where the quislings quiver & the tyrants tremble
Thieves in the Palace & liars in the Temple
Red Kite’s rising
Come out fighting
We’re not going to sleep tonight

Hail! Hail! Red Kite High!
Over the river & up in the sky
All you tyrants are out of time
Look on the blue horizon
Then you see the Red Kite rising...

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from SWILL'S SURPRISE SESSION (JAN 20TH 2022), released February 4, 2022
Words and Tune by Paul Simmonds

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Phil ‘Swill’ Odgers London, UK

Phil ‘Swill’ Odgers is singer and a songwriter with legendary UK folk rebel rockers The Men They Couldn’t Hang. He is also a solo artist in his own right.

Audiences around the world from Cairo to Reykjavik, Brisbane to Vancouver and Berlin to London have submitted to his effervescent and heartfelt vocal style in stadium, theatre, hall and after hours lock in. ... more

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