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Iron and Canvas

from The Springbank Voyage by Barry Nisbet

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Track 2 from my upcoming album 'The Springbank Voyage'.

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Back – through cobbled streets and tram lines, tenements and bars
Through the iron doors of the Kingston Shipbuilding Yard
To the wet, windy August of eighteen-ninety-four
And the air roars with hammers on hot steel
The shouts o the foremen and the rumbling of wheels

There’s Clydebridge steel in the stockyard you see on your right
Though supply’s slowed production wi the coal workers’ strike
There’s railcarts of rivets, coils of patent steel wire
There’s red lead crews, caulkin teams
There’s an apprentice who’s been sent to fetch a bucket of steam

Where steel and iron meet with canvas and rope
And the coal furnace kicks out great clouds of black smoke
Where they work like machines by the banks of the Clyde
And a brand new ship launches on every fourth tide.

The four master on the blocks here will soon have her sails
McAllister’s finest, for the fiercest Cape Horn gales
16 miles of rope straight off the Gourock walk
Wi 4,000 tonnes of cargo inside
She’s the latest commission for the Andrew Weir line

credits

from The Springbank Voyage, track released June 21, 2022
Words + Music: Barry Nisbet, 2022
Recording: Robin Wynn Evans at TPot Studios, 2022
Mixing: Adam Sinclair
Mastering: Andrew Tulloch


Lawrence Tulloch from ‘Da Springbank’ (Veesik Records, 2000)

Barry Nisbet – vocals, guitar
Theo Barnard – guitar, vocals
Ade Dacre – drums
Miriam Iorwerth – marimba
Stephen Jack – bass
Ellen Gira - cello

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Barry Nisbet Scotland, UK

A skilled guitarist, fiddler and songwriter, Shetlander Barry Nisbet is inspired by stories, both historical and contemporary. Performing in dialect and English, his songs give a sensitive, occasionally humorous take on past and contemporary events.
As likely to be seen at the wheel of a tall ship as on a festival stage, Barry runs the 'Sessions and Sail' musical sailing voyages.
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