Song is based on the poem 'Young Sons' by the poet Bill Mitton. It is written from a Mother and her son point of view, we all know that Mothers also lose daughters to war and when I sing this song I make a point of remembering that fact to the audience.
Music written by Marina Florance 
Arrangement by Marina Florance. Song recorded in my living room using a Tascam DR05.
The Path He Chose
Mitton/Florance 

She takes down a photograph 
and she holds it to her breast
just as she'd done the child it shows
she remembers his hair and how it felt
and she curses the path he chose

with a boyish smile and happiness
he picked the shilling and the gun
and she looks back with fear and dread 
when he told her what he'd done

Chorus
like his father before him and his grandfather to
he'll march to war to save me and you 
and have we learned nothing, nothing at all
when will we stop sending young men to war

yet she smiled and she waved him goodbye 
as only a mother can 
and if god was good if god was great
she'd see him return home again

but fickle fate it knows no god
makes judgements where it will
and IEDs don't discriminate 
'bout who they maim or kill

Chorus

young sons often come home its true, 
fulfilling their mothers fears
not with a boyish smile or happiness
but draped in flags and a mothers tear

Chorus, repeat 1st verse

The Path He Chose

The Moon, from the EP/Artists' Book:  'my own little piece of the sky' released Spring 2013 Recorded LIVE at The Puppet Theatre, Norwich. For more frequent musical updates from me why not  'like' my facebook page www.facebook.com/marinaflorance :)
The Moon Credits: 
Paul Bullen - Keyboard & Cara Winter - BVs
Written: Florance/Fox Allen
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The Moon (Florance/Fox Allen)
Here I stand, how small I feel,
just me and the moon and the stars, 
just me and the moon and the stars,

my own little piece of the sky, in you I confide
just me and the moon and the stars
just me and the moon and the stars

my own little piece of the sky

The Moon

A song about staying when you should leave...
Written by Florance/Fox Allen from the album 'Somewhere Down the Line'

Part of the Lyrics:
I have tasted the bittersweet flavour 
of a love that’s turned sour, 
felt the weight of a heart so heavy 
carried through those long dark hours...
I have kept a box full of memories 
of another life and time, 
rewritten the rule book when the words 
of love don’t rhyme...

The Guilty One

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The Dress from the EP/Artists' Book: 'my own little piece of the sky' released Spring 2013 Recorded LIVE at The Puppet Theatre, Norwich.
Credits: Paul Bullen - Keyboard
Written: Florance/Fox Allen
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The Dress  (Fox Allen/Florance)

she kept it in the bottom draw 
of the chest beside the bedroom door 
wrapped in tissue of the purest white 

on a bed of ancient oak it laid, 
the dress that her grandmother had made 
each stitch a link into the past 

the colour of emerald green 
it would have been a child's dream 
with buttons that shone like stars at night 

the green it spoke of open fields 
of trickling streams and summers yield 
of walking long amongst the creaking trees 

the wooden gate the old stone floor 
the path that led to the kitchen door 
a garden filled with a heady scent 

and in that dress there was more love 
than she would ever know
in that dress were memories of one she'd barely known

all this she kept and so much more 
in the chest beside the bedroom door
a secret life only she would know

Instrumental

she kept it in the bottom draw 
of the chest beside the bedroom door 
wrapped in tissue of the purest white

The Dress

WAVES is the result of the "emotional rollercoaster" that was 2021, born from watching someone very close to me suffer Postnatal Depression. A time so full of joy for the new life, so full of pain for a life changed beyond recognition.

Tom Robinson selected 'WAVES' for his mixtape, 31st Jan 2022, which went out on BBC 6music. BBC Radio Norfolk selected it as their BBC Introducing 'Record of the Week' that same week.

Credits:
Written: Marina Florance
Vocals/Guitar: Marina Florance
Produced/Guitar: Ben Walker
Strings: Anna Jenkins, Basia Bartz and Jo Silverston
Cover: Marina Florance, Cardiff Bay one misty November morning

Reviews:
"This is a new sound I'm calling Earthy Folk & it's heart aching beautiful, I absolutely love it" Johnno Casson @snippetcuts

"She's got one of those voices like I guess all great folk singers do that just evoke so much feeling..." "...just stunning" Kitty Perrin BBC Introducing Norfolk

"Marina knows her voice so well & writes to suit it – a low register but not quite husky & a deliberate not-quite crack in the last verse as she gets to the end. Superb." Folking.com
lyrics
I sailed on a sea of green
I sailed on a sea of blue
swam in the sea of hopeless
was lost in the ocean of you

I sailed on a sea of sacrifice
where fear of failure abounds
drifted on the sea of broken dreams
as the tides of change howled

short instrumental

I sailed on the sea of lonely
I sailed on the sea of drowned
swam an ocean of fallen tears
when a wall of waves tore me down

I sailed on the sea of loss
where no hope would be found
held fast in an ocean of your love
on fair winds to firmer ground

instrumental

we sail on the sea of green
we sail on the sea of blue
eased in to the sea of hopeful
was saved by the ocean of you
was saved by the ocean of you

WAVES

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'The Blue Lady' a song based on the inspirational life of May Alice Savidge who moved her medieval house from Ware, Hertfordshire to Wells-Next-The-Sea, Norfolk. The song also tries to encompass the struggle of Christine Adams (May's niece) who made a promise to complete the house after Mays death in 1993. 
You can find out more about May in the books that document her life 'A Lifetime In The Building' and 'Miss Savidge Moves Her House' both written by Michael McMahon and Christine Adams.
lyrics
Brown paper parcels, boxes and bags 
a house with a story to tell 
of love and loss and paths that crossed 
A promise to be fulfilled 
In '53 came the news 
they would raise that house to the ground 
without a care for the hopes and dreams 
of the woman who called it home 

Chorus: 
Was there ever such a dreamer 
under the Norfolk skies 
there are worse troubles at sea 
for the blue lady and me 

Beam by beam, tile and stone 
she made her mark on everyone, 
carried away with this labour of love 
until the time had come 
One hundred miles of open road 
they carried each beam, tile and stone 
to a place next the sea 
one woman and all she’d owned 

Chorus 

Through endless days, and endless nights, 
she kept diaries by candlelight 
boxes so high, row after row 
working tirelessly and alone 
23 years of devotion 
And a broken heart tied up with string 
Outside a nightingale sings 
What will tomorrow bring 

Chorus

The Blue Lady

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Written Marina Florance and Julie Fox Allen, from the EP 'my own little piece of the sky' recorded live at The Norwich Puppet Theatre. With Paul Bullen on Keyboard and Cara Winter BVs
Lyrics:
The Flower  (Florance/Fox Allen)

In the stillness of the morning
you lay by my side
wish I could read the thoughts 
that filled your mind
the distance between us 
nothing seemed to fill
and I wondered if you loved me still, 
I wondered if you loved me still

went down to the river 
where the water rushes by
let the beauty of this place 
cleanse my troubled mind
looking for an answer 
didn't know how you feel
and I wondered if you loved me still, 
I wondered if you loved me still

took the petals of a flower, 
laid them side by side
spoke the words that I'd learned 
as a child
my sorrow drifted downstream 
and all my fears were lost
to the sound of he loves me, 
he loves me not

he loves me, he loves me not,
he loves me, he loves me not
he loves me, he loves me not,
he loves me

The Flower

This is a studio version of Woman Like Me not released before, there is a live version on the Migration album. It is written by Florance/Kennedy

Migration

Woman Like Me

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This was recorded live at High Barn in Essex, A song about living for today and not spending too much time worrying about tomorrow...

Moments

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From EP the 'Triple A Side' with 3 brand new tracks and 2 bonus tracks, 
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Credits Getting Away:
lead Vocals Marina Florance and Ben Smith, 
lead guitar: Ben Smith 
other guitar: Marina Florance
Getting Away (Radio Edit) with Ben Smith. written by Florance/Fox Allen 
Lyrics: 
Lately I’ve seen a change in you & a little change in me
We’re habitually entwined in day to day activity
& I passed you in the hallway, once again on the stairs
& I was taken aback when you didn't even notice I was there
 
Lately we've been running round life’s most demanding ways
& If we had the time to speak, don’t think we’d know what to say
so wrapped up in the trivial things we didn't read the signs
& though the cracks where there for all to see we pretended we were fine
Chorus
So, I’m getting away, from all this, getting away, it’ll be bliss
cause I know a place where no-one will find me
Just a little way from here
I’m gonna make a little home from home & simply disappear
 
You’ll wake up late one morning with a space there in the bed
you’ll think my shoes & coat must be laying in another place instead
& you’ll call me from the kitchen, search from room to room
but all to soon you'll realise there's nothing more that you can do
Chorus
When things have finally settled down & we’ve both pondered for a while
I’ll turn up on your doorstep with a big happy smile
& our love will be much stronger & those other little things
Won’t matter anymore cause we’re together once again
Chorus
& we're getting away from all this getting away, it'll be bliss
cause I know a place were no one will find us
Just a little way from here we're gonna make a little home from home 
& simply disappear

Getting Away

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On the Compilation Album 'The F Spot' Femmes Fatales
Folk Song, based on a poem by Bill Mitton called Young Sons. A never ending cycle of war,,, from the view of a mother and her son... unfortunately many many people lose their lives to war from both genders and all faiths, colours and creeds...
The Path He Chose: Florance/Mitton
She takes down a photograph 
and she holds it to her breast 
just as she'd done the child it shows 
she remembers his hair and how it felt 
and she curses the path he chose 

with a boyish smile and happiness 
he picked the shilling and the gun 
and she looks back with fear and dread 
when he told her what he'd done 

Chorus 
like his father before him and his grandfather to 
he'll march to war to save me and you 
and have we learned nothing, nothing at all 
when will we stop sending young men to war 

yet she smiled and she waved him goodbye 
as only a mother can 
and if god was good if god was great 
she'd see him return home again 

but fickle fate it knows no god 
makes judgments where it will 
and IEDs don't discriminate 
'bout who they maim or kill 

Chorus 

young sons often come home its true, 
fulfilling their mothers fears 
not with a boyish smile or happiness 
but draped in flags and a mothers tear 

Chorus, repeat 1st verse
credits
from the triple 'A' side, released 30 May 2014 
Recorded at Folkstock Records 
Vocals/BVs/Guitar: Marina Florance 
Producer/Keyboard: Lauren Deakin Davies

Triple 'A' Side

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The Wind of change

From the moment that we met you left your impression on me
I thought my life was complete until you came my way
Take a look at me you’d never tell what I am thinking
My intentions are not as pure pure as they ought to be

And you look so troubled baby you look so ill at ease
Don’t you know don’t you know I can give you what you need
Because the wind of change is blowing our way 
And I know and I know it’s gonna bring you to me

I sense the way you feel I know you’re not satisfied
It must be hard on your soul living within a lie
I can tell you something something I’ve known all along
Life’s to short to compromise you only get one chance

And you look so troubled baby you look so ill at ease
Don’t you know don’t you know I can give you what you need
Because the wind of change is blowing our way 
And I know and I know it’s gonna bring you to me

Somewhere Down The Line

The Wind Of Change

Recorded in my living room with Tascam DR-05
Had to get this song out of my system by doing this cover, hopefully now I have recorded it and uploaded it I will stop singing it round and round in my head night after night.


Here is the sublime original by Patty Griffin https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p_AHpwjP8G4

Up To The Mountain, cover of the Patty Griffin Song

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Side By Side
Written by: Mick Kennedy
Lyrics
Side by side, face to face
We both have our cultures, we both have our faiths
and despite all of our differences
no matter what we say, we have so much in common
As we live day to day, side by side

First you were a neighbour, then you were a friend
Though we lived our lives in different ways
We shared a common sense

Chorus
And we shared in the good times
Helped each other through the bad
You laughed when I was happy
and I cried when you were sad

Chorus

Then something came between us
As the years went marching by
we fought with each other
An eye for an eye

Side by side
face to face, we both have our cultures
We both have our faiths
and despite all of our differences
no matter what we say
We have so much in common
As we live day to day
Side by side

But the points of contention
Between you and me
Will be the seeds of our destruction
If we refuse to see

That Side by side
And face to face
We both need our cultures
We both need our faiths
Despite all our differences
And no matter what we say
We have so much in common
As we live day to day
Side by side

So here’s a hand to you brother
It’s time for war to cease
We know our true enemies
Are famine and disease

But side by side, face to face
We’ll always have our cultures
We’ll always have our faiths
Despite all our differences
And no matter what we say
We have so much in common
As we live day to day
Side by side

Side By Side

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From the album This, That & The Other
Written: Florance/Fox Allen
Recorded/Produced: Marina Florance
Guitar/Keys/Vocals: Marina Florance

Bring Me That Sweet Thing Called Love

lately I've been down, so many things on my mind,
felt like the clouds were falling from the sky
and all I've ever known, everything that was precious to me
just blew away on a Summer breeze, hmmmm

Life never promised an easy ride I know
but when the rain falls hard we'll shelter from the storm
wait for the sun to shine a little light along the way 
give us the strength to carry on

Chorus: 
And if I push you away when I really long for you to stay, 
one thing will always be the same 
one constant thing in this crazy sea of change 
and its that sweet thing, oooh that sweet thing, oooh 
bring me that sweet thing called love

You say that you can't see a side to me that's real 
that I'm just a shadow of all I used to be 
you think that I've become afraid to feel 
that I'm always looking for yesterday hmmmm

And so you tell me it all happens for a reason 
part of a plan that we'll never see, 
and all those times that I changed my direction 
always you came back, always you came back to me

Chorus
But if you hold me strong, hold me for as long 
and if I push you away when I really long for you to stay
oh bring me that sweet thing, bring me that sweet thing oooh
please bring me that sweet thing called love

This, That & The Other

Bring Me That Sweet Thing Called Love

Little Black Cloud has been added to Tom Robinson Mixtape June 8th 2015, from This, That & The Other

written: Florance/Fox Allen
Date 2/62015 uploaded completed mastered track, Mastered by Tonalex Mastering

Recorded: i by Marina Florance and all instrumentation, LVs and production by Marina Florance, 2015


Lyrics: I used to look into the sky, on the horizon there would be a little black cloud way up high with a whole lot of rain for me it followed me like a shadow would, never gave me a moments peace rained on me whenever it could, when I expected it the least Chorus but when it rains I'll watch the flowers grow and in the dark I'll find a face in the moon and when I live I'll live each day like my last and it won't be a moment too soon and when I love it will be with my heart and soul and I will never be afraid to fall and that little black cloud won't hold me back because tomorrow doesn't come for us... Verse 2 So I took a sideways look at myself, it was then that I could see that my misfortune had become a self fulfilling prophecy so i'm gonna search for the good in everything and when that black cloud is overhead,  I'll walk towards the sun instead Chorus and now I know the meaning of a life lived to the full because a life lived in shadows is not living much at all and i'm gonna search for the good in everything and when that black cloud's overhead,  I'll walk towards the sun instead Chorus but when it rains I'll watch the flowers grow and in the dark I'll find a face in the moon and when I live I'll live each day like my last and it won't be a moment too soon and when I love it will be with my heart and soul and I will never be afraid to fall and that little black cloud won't hold me back because tomorrow doesn't come for us all.

Little Black Cloud

From the album 'This, That & The Other' released Jan 2016
Written By: Florance/Fox Allen/Kennedy

Carried Away

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Live sound recording taken from gig at St Pancras Old Church 28/04/2016 also playing that night was headliners Brian Willoughby & Cathryn Craig and providing support apart from Marina Florance was Ben Smith & Jimmy Brewer.

A Room Of Your Own - LIVE @ St Pancras Old Church

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From Marina's latest album 'fly beyond the border'
LV/BV/Cajon/Mandolin/Guitar/Harmonica: Marina Florance
Bass/Fiddle: Mark Jolley
Lead Guitar/BVs: Ben Smith
Guitar: Chris Bullen
Recording/Production: Marina Florance
Album Cover, Photography - Jon Clifton
Lyrics
Gonna take a ride back to the start
to the place where my heart wasn’t broken
and it’s hard for me to leave
but I know it doesn’t make it right for me to stay
Chorus
Cause I just heard you speak the words
that I longed to hear you say
oh I heard you say I love you
but you weren’t talking to me
so I’m gonna take a ride back to the start
to the place where my heart wasn’t broken
and I’m not yours to have and not to hold
from this my first day forward
Chorus
and I just heard you speak the words
that I longed to hear you say
oh I heard you say I love you
but you weren’t talking to me
mid 8th 
I tried hard to believe
And I stayed when I could have walked away
Now it’s only yester me that was made for you 
if we were ever meant to be
chorus
so I’m gonna take a ride back to the start
to the place where my heart wasn’t broken
cause I’m not yours to have and not to hold
from this my first day forward
Cause I just heard you speak the words
that I longed to hear you say
oh I heard you say I love you
but you weren’t talking to me

fly beyond the border

Yester Me

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Recorded in the Living Room on a Tascam DR05 handheld recorder I wasn't holding at the time.

Leonard Cohen Cover - Dance Me To The End Of Love

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Written by Marina Florance & Jules Fox Allen 
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Song commissioned by The Warm and Toasty Club for the Coast to Coast Project.
Written after attending Warm and Toasty memory afternoons at Havencroft Court, Walton On The Naze. Via Coast to Coast  project which is funded by Arts Council England , the Big Lottery Fund, Heritage Lottery Fund, Essex County Council and Grassroots Charity. 
The afternoons were engaging & entertaining. We chatted, we laughed, we drank tea & ate biscuits AND had a great time revelling in the stories from everyone's past(including our own).
This was positive, face to face engagement that was not only enjoyable but also captured people centred positive stories of days gone by for future generations to listen to.
Lyrics:
Verse 1
All aboard the charabanc 
the fun starts here,
leave our troubles behind us 
on the road my dear,
sticks of rock & candy floss 
for our days away,
got our jam sandwiches & lemonade
Chorus
Times back then were happy,
some a little sad, but now 
we’re all friends together 
down on the Naze
& the sea softly sings 
its serenade, oh the sea
softly sings its serenade
Verse 2
Mothers knitted costume looked a treat,
but by the end of the day 
it was big enough for three,
down at All Hallows on a muddy beach,
long summer days down by the sea
Chorus
Verse 3
Up early in the morning 
sat on a milking stool, 
we worked hard but happy
not to go to school, 
fields of hops & old sack cloths
we made our beds, top to toe 
we laid down our sleepy heads
Chorus 
Verse 4
Hopscotch, skipping ropes, 
& camps in the wood,
getting up to mischief 
in any way we could,
stolen kisses, sneaky fags, 
those were the days,
if he only knew, 
what would your father say
Chorus
Verse 5
Left school on a Friday,
Monday started work, 
May & Bakers all lined up, 
we didn’t shirk, listening to 
the Beatles & the Rolling Stones,
workers playtime how the foreman 
used to moan
Chorus
Verse 6
Father was a carpenter in a velvet suit,
plum or electric blue 
depending on his mood,
London train to Foyles 
choose a new song he said,
cabaret & raindrops 
keep falling on my head
Chorus
Times back then were happy,
some a little sad, but now 
we’re all friends together 
down on the Naze
& the sea softly sings 
its serenade, oh the sea
softly sings its serenade
& the Tiara Girls smile every day,
down on the Naze

Credits: Down On The Naze - Florance/Fox-Allen (4:48) 
Marina Florance - LV, Guitar, Cajon, BVs 
Johnno Casson -Keys, BVs 
Based on the memories from Havencroft Court, Walton On The Naze

Coast To Coast

Down On THe Naze

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Down On The Naze

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Written: FLorance/Fox Allen 
from the studio album 'Somewhere Down The Line'
Lyrics
In Orange:  
The last light has turned darkest black
All the anonymous faces have found their way back
Taking only the time we had to spare
Not wanting to share, not wanting to share
We could talk for hour upon hour 
Knowing the end will be the same
Drawing us so near another secret to be shared tonight
Only us to hear, only us to hear

Chorus
Take my words as truth 
And another lie will not be spoken
As a token of my love
Take my hands and we’ll go 
Slowly to the top of the stairs
There’s something there, there’s something there 
That we can both believe in 
In orange, in orange, in orange

All the life is flowing back to me 
Orange shades of memory 
Watching from above a shadow of you and me sends its love
The world fades away, the world fades away

Chorus

Sowewhere Down The Line

In Orange

song written: Marina Florance
from the album 'Somewhere Down The Line'

It's Much Easier

From Marina's latest album 'fly beyond the border' featuring the voice of Johnno Casson.
Fiddle & Bass – Mark Jolley
LV/BVs - Marina Florance & Johnno Casson
All other instrumentation - Marina Florance
Recorded/Produced: Marina Florance
Written By: Marina Florance, Richard Pierce, Jules Fox Allen
Album Cover, Photography - Jon Clifton


Lyrics: 
Life goes on, that’s all they say,
To close our eyes is the only way,
There’s a woman and a child with a familiar face
they can see no sense in going on at all
They don’t know what all the fighting’s for
They could be any one of us
But they’re invisible

Will we be losing any sleep tonight
Will we be losing any sleep at all

Life goes on, that’s all they say
To close our eyes is the only way
There’s a man, gun in his hand, revenge in his heart
He looks at you from some wartorn place
A desperate man painted hate on his face
He could be any one of us
But he listened to their lies

Will we be losing any sleep tonight
Will we be losing any sleep at all

Life goes on, that’s all they say
To close our eyes is the only way
There’s a child with luck on her side, or so it would seem
Her future resides amongst those who have died
And those who have seen
She could be any one of us
But she’s invisible

Life goes on, that’s all they say
To close our eyes is the only way
There’s a woman, head in her hands, she falls to her knees
And where she used to live is razed to the ground
Her life’s possessions scattered around
She could be any one of us
Still listening to their lies

Will you be losing any sleep tonight
Will you be losing any sleep at all

Life goes on, or so they say.

247News ft Johnno Casson

247News - Ft Johnno Casson

This song was written for The Warm & Toasty Club & inspired by 
Memory Afternoons at Enoch House, Colchester, Essex.
Words & Music: Marina Florance & Jules Allen
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Credits:
LVs, BVs, Cajon, Guitar, Keys - Marina Florance
BVs & Whistling - Gary Florance
Bass, Violin, BVs - Mark Jolley
Featuring the voices of residents of Enoch House Colchester

Lyrics:
Chorus
We've all got a tale to tell
Times were not always so well
But putting it all aside 
We made it through by and by

Verse 1
It’s warm and toasty in here
Share our laughter, sometimes tears 
You'll be welcomed with a cup of tea  
And a biscuit, maybe two or three

Verse 2
Wrapped in a little white cloth
Cooking for hours in the old iron pot
There’s a jam roly poly for tea 
Enough for you & dad & grandma & me

Break
What did we like the most
a fish paste sandwich
or peas on toast
And nothing could come close 
To bubble and squeak
the day after our Sunday roast

Chorus
We've all got a tale to tell
Times were not always so well
But putting it all aside 
We made it through by and by

Verse 3
The treat of the day from Mum
A whole penny to buy a bun          
Dad was a warden for the ARP
In his shadow & old tin hat 
Dennis would be

Verse 4
Porridge on the menu for Jan the Nan
Porridge again, again & again
But what were you gonna do
With a family of twenty-two

Verse 5
Waiting for Sunday tea
Freddie the Shrimp man, what will it be
Herrings, winkles and whelks 
From his barrow of the sea

Chorus
We've all got a tale to tell
Times were not always so well
But putting it all aside 
We made it through by and by

Instrumental… La La La Laaala

Repeat Verse 1
It’s warm and toasty in here
Share our laughter, sometimes tears 
You'll be welcomed with a cup of tea  
And a biscuit, maybe two…
Maybe two or three

Warm & Toasty

From This, That & The Other, it is poetry set to music and featuring the spoken word of Richard Pierce and based on his poem 'A Better Song'

A Better Song feat. Richard Pierce

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https://www.marinaflorance.com/
'The Tale of Marcy Borders' this song was written in the later part of 2006, hence the line "5 years ago it happened" At the time Marcy Borders had made a slight recovery but was to unfortunately relapse, after many more years of suffering the trauma of 9/11 she finally came out of the depths of despair after hearing about the death of Osama Bin Laden in May 2011. When we wrote this song Marcy Borders was known to have said she did not like the term 'The Dust Lady' and that is why there is no reference to it in the song. 

The Tale Of Marcy Borders

The beauty of the city, like no where else on earth
In a building that stood so high
She could feel the hand of god
Her life was unremarkable, Until that fateful day
Just trying to make a livin
But barely gettin by

Five years ago it happened, almost to the day
When the hand of fate lifted Marcy down
To guide her on her way
In a moment her life was flashing by, Could have ended like the rest
But it was written she would stay
To see another day

Chorus

There are good days, there are bad,
There are some we can’t forget
There are days that stay etched in the mind
But the tale of Marcy Borders was to have a happy end
Like a phoenix from the ashes she would rise

Through the chaos and confusion, she made her way towards the light
Knowing for indecision
She could pay the highest price
Her blue skies where lost beneath, dark heavy, clouds of grey
how things can change In the blink of an eye

Chorus

For a time she was lost, lost in her fears
But she took her darkest moments
Washed them with her tears
And she hung on for 2 long years, Wonderin if she would heal
now she can smile each day she’s alive 

Chorus  X 2

Marcy Borders in her own words http://vimeo.com/28767268

The Tale of Marcy Borders

Written By: Marina Florance
Released on all streaming platforms Dec 14th 2020
Credits:
Marina Florance: Guitar, BVs, LV, Production and Mixing
Ben Walker: Resonator and Piano
Mark Jolley: Bass
Tobisonics: Mastering
Artwork Photography: Gary Florance
Lyrics
Too many dreams have been broken
too many hopes pushed aside
of all those words we’ve spoken
how many truths, how many lies
Lonely runs both ways
if I could read your mind
Oooh I’d know just what to say
know the words I should hide

What have we got right now
all that’s me, all that’s you
Gonna live my life right here in this moment
under a sky of blue, under sky of blue

But you can see right through me
and you can read my mind
and you know just what to say
know the words you should hide
But too many dreams have been broken
Your hopes pushed aside
and of all those words you’ve spoken
how many truths, how many lies

What have we got right now
all that’s me. all that’s you
Gonna live my life right here in this moment
under a sky of blue, under sky of blue

A Sky of Blue

A Sky Of Blue

This is a LIVE one take acoustic version of Johnno Casson aka SnippetCuts track called Wondering, it was recorded on a Tascam handheld recorded April 2020. I have found it today while looking for something else on the Tascam, I let Johnno hear it, he liked it so here it is.
Johnno's wonderful song performed by him here: https://youtu.be/Uv6tunQbw2M

Wondering

Wondering Acoustic Cover Of SnippetCuts Track

If your favourite song on here disappears due to me changing my subscription then just pop along to Bandcamp where you can hear all of my music https://marinaflorance.bandcamp.com
I am a singer/songwriter originally from London, my music crosses a number of genres & has been described as Americana, Folk & Country. While undoubtedly I draw inspiration from many sources, my voice & style are my own.
I've played many festivals, folk clubs, pubs, coffee bars, churches and my live performances are numerous and varied.
Radio play has been extensive from online to National, BBC6Music and BBCIntroducing.
My first album 'Somewhere Down The Line' was funded by Arts Council England, without that financial support all I have done musically would never have happened, the opportunities that have come my way may have just passed me by...

To book me please visit my contact page.

I am currently writing album reviews for FATEA Magazine Blog and in addition to this I really enjoy writing a poem or two (see my blogs page).
I have been a moderator for Tom Robinson's Music Blog (Fresh On The Net between 2019-2024), where I honed my ability to write reviews for other artists across many varied genres.

Blue Boat and Me
In 2022 I self-published the children's book Blue Boat and Me with wonderful illustrations by Annie Clapham. I loved doing this and one day I would love to do another one.

Expectation
Is my latest album, released in 2023. It has received wonderful reviews and been played on National Radio. With contributions from many awesome musicians.
Please put your listening apparatus on and be prepared to cry, laugh, sing, dance and smile with me.

Warm and Toasty Club
I worked with The Warm & Toasty Club between 2017-2019 & along with Jules Fox Allen, we were asked to write six songs based on the memories of residents at retirement complexes along the Essex Coast & in Colchester.
Alongside The Warm & Toasty Club founder, Johnno Casson we won the FATEA Innovation Award  for the lottery & Arts Council funded Memory Afternoons Project.

Fly beyond the border
In March 2018 I independently released my second studio album which features collaborations with Kate Dimbleby & Johnno Casson. The album has received great reviews, Every Woman being one of the most popular with beautiful BVs from Cathryn Craig.

This, That & The Other
Was released in January 2016 on Folkstock Records. The album represented a big leap forward for me as I also recorded & produced it. One of the tracks ‘Little Black Cloud' was selected for the Tom Robinson BBC6 Music Mixtape via 'Fresh On The Net'.
BBC6Music has also played The Moon from the EP ‘my own little piece of the sky’, Waves from 'Expectation' and the single 1974 (That's How It Was In Those Days)

Cry - The Single
I won the Oldies Composers Competition judged by BBC Radio 2 presenters including Bob Harris & the late Sir Terry Wogan to name a few, this resulted in Anthony Head (actor & singer) performing my song 'Cry' live on ITVs This Morning and played on BBC Radio 2, truly wonderful moments for me. Take a look on my collaborations page to read more about it

Festivals
I have played to name a few: Norfolk and Norwich International Festival, Wimborne Festival, Strawberry Fair, Kesgrave, the Cambridge Folk Festival both Club tent and a huge highlight Stage 2 with the great Brian McNeil. 

SoundCloud
I was nominated via Soundcloud as Soundclouder of the day with my song The Guilty One & added to their International Women's Day playlist, this resulted in 10s of thousands of plays for that track.

Marina Florance

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