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Timber Ships

from Fish House Blues by Daniel Shaw

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An antique harpoon was found by an Inuit tribe in the blubber of a landed Bowhead Whale. The age of the harpoon (1879) suggested the whale could have been up to a couple of hundred years old. Northern Right whales may live even longer. No one knows how long they live but it is possible that some whales remember a time (or pass on the ‘song’ to the next generation) when the oceans were full of their cousins and you could ’walk on their backs’ from Nantucket to the mainland.

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For 800 years she has swum the seas
From the cool of the North to Pacific warm breeze
But now her cousins don’t call
And the endless song has died
The seas are all empty
Through all the world wide

But her great eye has seen
And her dark mind remembers
Like a fire burning
Down to its final embers
Her children swimming
As the sea birds call
Safe from the storms
And the timber ships tall.

Will my son’s son ever see a whale?
Once he could have walked
On a cetacean’s tail
From the mainland down to Nantucket beach
Now the bleached bones lie white
Deep out of thought and reach.

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from Fish House Blues, released April 20, 2021
Abi Shaw - Violin
Fiona Shaw - Cello

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Daniel Shaw Glastonbury, UK

Daniel Shaw based in Glastonbury & S.W.area.
Past work includes performances with the poet Laureate, Simon Armitage; & performances in Europe, Tennessee, Kolkatta and the Uk.
Daniel has also performed and recorded with the The Aardvarks, double bass & Bass with Mossflower, The Minor Works Unit, Mr Keep Calm & The Cancelled Cheques, The Blackdown Bluebirds andThe Duncan Batey Trio. ... more

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