Name: Vikings We Are by Reset Prose
Duration: 4 min 1 s
Description: A true tale from the 9th century with a little bit of folklore about Suffolk

I was recently commissioned by a filmmaker in Stoke On Trent to compose a song for her latest film project, and thought I'd share it with you guys! See what you think.
Produced by Lewis Andrews

Hold On

Salt/Sea

To The River (early)

Thetford Song

Spotify - https://open.spotify.com/artist/79EKPC75ayNxXg6AWQ8WGg
https://www.marinaflorance.com/
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

The Path He Chose

Hogarth's Gin Lane inspired Vagabondfolk saga.

01 Thy Last Drop - Madame Geneva

Gravediggers

A true tale from the 9th century with a little bit of folklore about Suffolk

Vikings We Are

A cover version of one of our favourite scottish folk songs and originally a poem by Rabbie Burns.

Bough

Ca' The Yowes

RESET PROSE are life-long friends duo Gavin Mitchell & Nathan Smith. They have established themselves at, and with enormous support from, local folk clubs The Milkmaid and The Bury Folk Collective - privileged to perform showcase nights and enjoy opening sets for JEZ LOWE & THE BAD PENNIES, THEM HARVEY BOYS, SHERRI KERSHAW, THE GERRY COLVIN BAND and, more recently, a pre-event warm up for FAIRPORT CONVENTION.

They are singer/songwriters hailing from Suffolk, playing a mixture of their own original tunes and covers.

Live performances see Gavin on guitar/harmonica and Nathan on mandolin/guitar. In the studio the sound is expanded by either player to incorporate bass, drums or keyboards into the mix.

Having previously played at FolkEast in 2013 & 2014, and half hour slots at the local Oxjam in 2013-2015, RESET PROSE has also played at The Cambridge Folk Festival 2014 - followed by the inaugural 2015 Bury Folk Festival in collaboration with the Bury Folk Collective (with a follow-up appearance in 2016 booked). They have also been honoured to play gigs at other wonderful folk clubs and venues in Stowmarket (with the distinction of being the very first opening act at the John Peel Centre), Great Bardfield, Thetford, Wolferton, and an hour long live internet radio show on West Norfolk Radio in Great Massingham... to name a few!

You can follow our progress or contact us via Facebook, Twitter and YouTube. Thanks for listening!

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