What Holds The World Together

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Rosie wrote this song after reading a story of a village in India that suffered high rates of infanticide. Stuck in a dowry system, parents couldn’t afford to marry off their daughters so they would take them out and lay them in the woods the day they were born. The area was also subject to heavy deforestation, causing flooding and erosion. So one couple decided to plant trees as an investment for their newborn daughter, a choice that had a massive positive impact on the environment and community after the idea caught on. The song is followed by an uplifting tune called Sevens written by Philippe.

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I cannot sleep for wonder
Though I have laboured hard all this livelong night
And in the wildwood yonder
I hear the forest wake and whisper with delight
For born to me a daughter
And born to them a friend
And born with you what once would be comes to an end

I’ll give you thorn that through raging storm clings fast and steady
And willow knows, to break and grow when time is ready
And oak that you may see how the meek grow mighty
And this will be your dowry
And this will be your dowry

What holds the world together but roots grown deep beneath the changing whims of man?
But what is now was never
And natures grip it slips as soil shifts into sand
And what richness there she tethered, it falls from fields and farms
With the bones of all those daughters held there in her arms

Now I need not have fear
I did not carry you warm just to lay you in the cold
A life ahead appears,
with fingers laced like strong roots braced, our place to hold
We’ve bound your life to bounty
It’s growing as you grow
So not to gods or men but to them your life you owe

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from What Holds The World Together, released July 21, 2022
Words & melody by Rosie Hodgson
Arrangement by The Wilderness Yet

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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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