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Courageous Tree

by Mike Turnbull

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Courageous Tree 03:46
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Courageous Tree Mike Turnbull D G D G Vse 1. You’ve earned the right to survive a vicious lightning strike Bm G D G One side perfect & crisp the other with a blackened twist On a grey & racing stormy day your roots are reaching far away To the life of a warm lake shore, stretch the toes of a giant dinosaur A G A G Pre Ch. Bursting back into life, set your leaves toward the sky D G Ch. Throw your arms around the courageous tree D G Show your scars you are the courageous tree Bm G And you will triple in height when your leaves are in sight D G Throw your arms around the courageous tree Vse 2. Broken & vertically shattered, inwardly bruised & battered Beauty & courage deserved of love, there’s room on your branches for everyone Pre Ch. Bursting back into life, set your leaves towards the sky Ch. Throw your arms around the courageous tree Show your scars you are the courageous tree And you will triple in height when your leaves are in sight Throw your arms around the courageous tree Inst… Bm, A, G /// Quiet ch... Throw your arms around the courageous tree Show your scars you are the courageous tree And you will triple in height when your leaves are in sight Throw your arms around the courageous tree Outro ch... Throw your arms around the courageous tree Show your scars you are the courageous tree And you will triple in height when your leaves are in sight Throw your arms around the courageous tree
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Sea Charts & Life Maps 02:36
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Sea charts & Life maps G Gmaj7 G Gmaj7 G Gmaj7 G Gmaj7 I started out with an empty lap, sea charts & a life map C D G Gmaj7 And here I am, I can’t fold it back I started out with a clean slate, chalk in my hand & a world that waits And here I am, I know the way Em C The earth may be cracked & so arrid dry Em D And your tears won’t hydrate the ground C D G Gmaj7 .... Nothing ventured nothing gained that’s what I found I started out with a telescope, I had to turn it round to see any hope And here I am, I know where to go The earth may be cracked & so arrid dry And your tears won’t hydrate the ground Nothing ventured nothing gained that’s what I found (Inst over G Gmaj7 G Gmaj7 G Gmaj7 G Gmaj7 C D G Gmaj7 ... I started out with an empty lap, sea charts & a life map And here I am, I can’t fold it back
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Ernie's Liquid Gold 03:24
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Ernie’s Liquid Gold D G D A V1, Nineteen hundred & seven and fortune favours the brave D G D A D Mackinley’s gifts from heaven sit beneath the Nimrod’s sails, 25 cases from Inverness set to keep those explorers warm Freezing cold wind biting at their chest and that whiskey it glows from the floor A G A (Br) Continue the journey oh Paterson said It’s a marriage of malts that’s what I’m G told, D G D A (Ch) And the spirit of adventure and passion is here when I have Ernie’s liquid D gold. V2, 18 months later they sailed home leaving 3 crates safe in the ice 100 years of time will pass before that secret is brought back to life Br. Continue the journey oh Paterson said It’s a marriage of malts that’s what I’m told Ch. And the spirit of adventure and passion is here when I have Ernie’s liquid gold V3, Richard ‘the nose’ was put to task to recreate this prize American white oak, sherry casks and peat from the Orkney Isles Inst.. Continue the journey oh Paterson said It’s a marriage of malts that’s what I’m told And the spirit of adventure and passion is here when I have Ernie’s liquid gold (x2) And the spirit of adventure and passion is here when I have Ernie’s liquid gold (x3)
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Summer Standing Still 03:24
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Summer Standing Still Mike Turnbull G C Dsus G C Dsus V.1. We drive thru a tunnel of trees, endless, with a four window breeze G C Dsus G C Dsus And blowing our cares to a universal place, between the sun’s glorious... Em C Em Dsus Em Br. ...Rays, we walk between staffs of gold, to a place where nobody knows C Em Dsus And in our eyes, a window to the soul where we can roam V.2. We danced on pebbles the size of our fist, to a cave where faith still exists A glittering sea in our eyes it rolls towards us, with an infinite sigh Br. We walk between staffs of gold, to a place where nobody knows And in our eyes, a window to the soul where we can roam G C Dsus Ch. Here I am at the top of the hill G C Dsus 360 view and the air so still G C Dsus And a skylark belting his tunes to the fields Em Dsus And I’m here with you... G C Dsus G C Dsus G C Dsus ...and the summer’s standing still summer standing still, summer standing still Em Dsus Summer standing still. V.3.Smells from the sea, rise from the stove, Mark Rad’ on the radio Filling the air with sounds in our ears, will we still do this, throughout the years? Br. Will we walk between staffs of gold, to a place where nobody knows And in our eyes, a window to the soul where we can roam Ch. x 2
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Every Last Wolf 03:47
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Every Last Wolf Mike Turnbull In a time where winderness was tamed And blackthorns in the eyes of the brave Ghost prints remain on the cliffs And Wraysholme Tower exists Edgar threw down his fist Said every last wolf not to be missed Come forward all you brave fellas And take the hand of dearest Adela Br. We’ll start the chase at Windermere Ride our steeds as far as here South, with an unknown knight Just who is this mystery man they cried Ch. We’ll find the old grey enemy The last wolf to surely tread In the forests of old England Chase him until he’s stone dead Kill every last wolf he said x 4 Whoever shall succeed Will have the crest of the wolf indeed And carved on the tomb at your feet That wolf mild & meek Upon the cliffs of Humphrey Head The wolf has Adela in dread With teeth bared & real Grey fur met with steel Br, Ch. Who was this knight with a spear Who took the hand of dearest Adela Who was this mysterious one It was Edgars long lost son Br, Ch.

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Songs of strength & courage.

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released March 29, 2020

All songs written & arranged by Mike Turnbull

Mike Turnbull - tenor guitar, mandola, banjo, mandolin, percussion

The Safe Kings:
Suzanne Ambrose - double bass
Dave Pennington - cajon

Guests:
Stu Denney - clarinet
Freya Harbottle - concertina, harmonium
Phil Lewis - trumpet
Mark Browne - old time banjo
Dawn Foster - fiddle, backing vocals
Paul Morris - backing vocal


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Mike Turnbull Kendal, UK

"Mike Turnbull is a singer-songwriter from the Lake District, UK whose main instruments are tenor guitar & octave mandola. Their sound coupled with the sources of his songs suggests Seth Lakeman and, in truth, that isn’t a bad comparison. He certainly has the same drive and energy."
Dai Jeffries - Folking.com

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session musician for heavyrainsoundstudio.com Kendal. ... more

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