This is a 'Dancing with ghosts' track I wrote about a year ago I think...It's a repost but will be putting more up as I go along..Thanks folks for all the great comments....I really value your listening and taking the time to comment...Karl

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A new mix of Storm clouds.. written following a trip to Ireland many years ago....
Lyrics

Storm Clouds Rising		Karl Robins	13/5/96

There were storm clouds rising over Donegal,
It was sixteen years ago.
But the memories still linger on,
When the waves went crashing  through the seaweed and the stones.

And the tall trees scattered in the morning rain,
To hide the rising of the sun.
When the wind spared nothing in it’s race through time,
Where the old men sheltered and the reason wasn’t hard to find.

CHORUS
And there were storm clouds rising, there was something in the air,
Yes, there were storm clouds rising over Donegal that year.

And the sound of music floating through the air,
It beckoned us to stay.
With the fiddles and the whistles and the bodrhan drums,
Where the rhythms and the rhymes joined the old men and the young.

And the couples in the corners of the bars and pubs,
Played a game of kiss and tell.
Were they clinging to each other for their very souls ?
Were they trying to discover which direction their lives should go ? 

CHORUS : AS BEFORE

And it was there that I discovered that it wasn’t to be,
That the dream was just a dream.
And the crazy feelings, they belonged to me,
And I smile when I think of how I wanted it to be.

There were storm clouds rising over Donegal,
It was sixteen years ago.
But the memories still linger on inside my mind,
When the waves ran free and we never gave a thought to time.

CHORUS : AS BEFORE

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Louis Aimé Augustin Le Prince (28 August 1841 – disappeared 16 September 1890, declared dead 16 September 1897) was a French artist and the inventor of an early motion-picture camera, possibly the first person to shoot a moving picture sequence using a single lens camera and a strip of (paper) film.[1][2] He has been credited as the "Father of Cinematography",[3] but his work did not influence the commercial development of cinema—owing at least in part to the great secrecy surrounding it.[4][5]

A Frenchman who also worked in the United Kingdom and the United States, Le Prince's motion-picture experiments culminated in 1888 in Leeds, England.[6] In October of that year, he filmed moving-picture sequences of family members in Roundhay Garden and his son playing the accordion, using his single-lens camera and Eastman's paper negative film.[7] At some point in the following eighteen months he also made a film of Leeds Bridge. This work may have been slightly in advance of the inventions of contemporaneous moving-picture pioneers, such as the British inventors William Friese-Greene and Wordsworth Donisthorpe, and was years in advance of that of Auguste and Louis Lumière and William Kennedy Dickson (who did the moving image work for Thomas Edison).

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This is a song written by my mate Andy Waterhouse with music by my son Ben Robins. I sent Ben Andy's words because I was struggling with a melody and this is what he came back with. i think it's amazing and we're so looking forward to making this a Dancing with ghosts song! Believe it or not its about a 'trolley car' which was moved from Blackpool to San Francisco...

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Hi folks, !! I  know that this track is on David's profile but we felt it 's good for it to be on both. Thanks for all the great comments..
Words were a poem sent to me by David, all guitars and vocals are mine, and the rest of what I call the 'magic' is Gary's..bass, orchestration, choir, thunder etc! Hope you like this final version...Thanks again to David for the words!! Karl

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Hi Folks, I'm Karl Robins, originally from the North of England, Leeds but now live in a place called Spittal near Berwick upon Tweed. Been playing for many years as a solo artist but also in a number of different bands. One was clanjamfrie, with Richard Currie and John Carey, and also Blackwing.

Blackwing was essentially myself and Linda Stephenson, whose influences were mainly rock and blues, we sang  together for around five years. I've recently retired from my 'proper job' so I'm now able to spend a great deal of time on music and songwriting and have been able to start putting down songs I've had hanging around for ages, some of those are on here too. Most of these are with the excellent Gary Hetherington, with our 'long distance' writing and recording project, we go under the name 'Dancing with Ghosts' Hope you enjoy the music folks, always happy to have comments and to listen to new music and musicians!

Karl Robins

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