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Ten Strings and a Goat Skin Lyrics


The Grey Funnel Line Don't mind the rain or the rolling sea These weary nights…



The Night They Moved the House The word had spread from door to door Down the Barshwa…
When First I Came to Caledonia When first I came to Caledonia And I got loadin' at…


Tarvae


on The Night They Moved the House

As Perè Felix said the Lord's Prayer
One of the people helping with the move recited a religious prayer


And passed the wine to all hands there
The group shared a flask of wine as a form of camaraderie and morale boost


Then he sang a sailor's song
One of the people helping with the move sang a song typically sung by sailors

Pere in this context is a priest friar and the sharing of wine suggests the former as it would suggest they had communion.

The sailors song would be the sort used to get men working in time hauling ropes and the way it's written suggests it was the priest doing the singing.

Tarvae


on The Night They Moved the House

navigating through open terrain and bodies of water

More to the point, across a field and a frozen pond

A. R. I. D.


on The Night They Moved the House

In the Spotify recording, I believe they sing "He'd found some deed..." but these lyrics have "He'd found a deed..."

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