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The Carol Of The Flood

from What Holds The World Together by The Wilderness Yet

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A new song which relates a positive story of mankind’s relationship with the natural world! For a long time, man carved up the Sheffield Lakeland with waterways and reservoirs, unwittingly creating lots of unique habitats for different species to flourish… The floodwaters are now carefully managed to conserve these habitats. Rowan was commissioned to write this song by Soundpost for a Landscape Partnership project.

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From heathered ridge
To packhorse bridge
The river springs her source
Through brook and tarn 

Past old cruck barn

She runs her crooked course


As streamlets surge

In chorus, merge

The wilds of stone and mud

Each beck and burn

In whirlpools churn

The carol of the flood

The river flows from moor and peak
In trickle, torrent, rill and creek
Though man her route has wrought upon
The fish and fowl her waters don


Down sleeping hill

Through forge and mill

Her waters drive the wheel

Of nature’s sloth

And mankind’s growth

A city made of steel

This city’s tale
Has left its trail
In weir and dam’s release
Each pass and dale
Each oaky vale
Holds reservoirs of peace

When nightjars churr
And barn owls stir
Her water foams and froths
Their screech to drown
As they swoop down
Where light plays Lutestring moths
This rush of life
With wildness rife
Fed from the Fairthorn flow
And rivelin trout
Swim riffles out
Into the pools below

Where herons wheel
And fill their creel
O’er maze of clawing briar
They read the scrawl
Of drystone wall
Cross meadow, moor and mire
As creatures tread
The paths we’ve shed
And swim the routes we shun
The managed flood
Their riverblood
Unwittingly has won

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from What Holds The World Together, released July 21, 2022
Words & music by Rowan Piggott

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The Wilderness Yet UK

The Wilderness Yet combines the acclaimed talents of folksinger Rosie Hodgson, traditional fiddler Rowan Piggott, and guitarist-flautist Philippe Barnes. Independently, they have earned audiences’ esteem as consummate musicians; together, they weave a tapestry of traditional & self-penned songs with a charm and familarity that is usually only found in seasoned line-ups.​ ... more

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