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  • Compact Disc (CD) + Digital Album

    Comes in a jewel case with 8-page booklet including lyrics to all songs, CD liner notes by Gary & Glenn Miller, back cover photo of Gary & Glenn Miller taken during the concert performance, 'thumbnail' photographs of each band member taken during the concert performance, lovely inner back card artwork, recording details and additional credits, etc.

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    Includes unlimited streaming of "Here Come The Ranting Lads" - Live! via the free Bandcamp app, plus high-quality download in MP3, FLAC and more.
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  • "Here Come The Ranting Lads!" - Live! - Limited Edition Video

    A video of the concert featuring an alternate track listing, which nicely compliments the CD version, as follows: -
    1. Ranting Lads
    2. Widows of Hartley
    3. This Village
    4. Alice in Wonderland
    5. Side By Side
    6. Song For Ewan
    7. A Better Man Than You
    8. Workhorse
    9. When The Wind Blows, Billy Boy
    10. Success Express
    11. Mother, Waiting
    12. Grandfatha's Fatha

    NB: - The video is currently available in a choice of formats (VHS, NTSC, SECAM) - choose your preferred format by selecting from the options in the 'Choice of Video Format (Signed/Unsigned)' box at the checkout.

    Also: - Signed copies (by Gary Miller) are now available on request (at no additional cost). Simply make your choice by selecting from the various options in the 'Choice of Video Format (Signed/Unsigned)' box at the checkout.     ... more

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  • Special Offer - Limited Edition Compact Disc plus Limited Edition Video Bundle
    Compact Disc (CD) + Digital Album

    A "Special Offer" package which includes both the CD & Video bundled together at a discount price.

    NB: - The video is currently available in a choice of formats (VHS, NTSC, SECAM) - choose your preferred format by selecting from the options in the 'Choice of Video Format (Signed/Unsigned)' box at the checkout.

    Also: - Signed copies (by Gary Miller) are now available on request (at no additional cost). Simply make your choice by selecting from the various options in the 'Choice of Video Format (Signed/Unsigned)' box at the checkout.

    Includes unlimited streaming of "Here Come The Ranting Lads" - Live! via the free Bandcamp app, plus high-quality download in MP3, FLAC and more.

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lyrics

MOTHER, WAITING

Mother is waiting in the candlelit quiet
For her soldier-boy son to come home
Fireflies swarm in the fallen night
Beneath the black mountain a river seeks rest
As this mother waits on in her charcoal country
Knitting at her nails
The tears that stream from an ancient agony
Hiss like rain on the grate

She is a scrapbook of ancient cuttings
The pregnant wishes the bleeding sketches
The stretch-marks that etch her path
All draw her to damned pictures like these
A mother is waiting waiting waiting
Her thunder stolen from such lightning
As a blinding passion, flesh on heat
And her hands demanding ways

Such a wait on this night
The burden of a life
A soldier she sweated skin for
Lies felled by a blow to the Nation
And over the fields she knows she knows
A letter is coming coming slowly
From a mad king who has killed much time
And killed her gentle son


(lyrics: Keith Armstrong / music: Gary Miller)

Copyright © 1995 Keith Armstrong / Gary Miller / Whippet Records

credits

from "Here Come The Ranting Lads" - Live!, released September 27, 1999
Gary Miller - lead vocals, acoustic guitar
Glenn Miller - accordion
Hugh Bradley - mandola, backing vocals
Andy Tong - bass, backing vocals
Cozy Dixon - drums

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The Whisky Priests (1985-2002) was founded by twin brothers, Gary & Glenn Miller (“the Joe Strummer and Mick Jones of Folk Music”). The band was internationally renowned for its energetic live shows, released a number of critically acclaimed albums, toured extensively and developed a worldwide cult following. The band reunited to tour in 2018 and release a 12-disc Complete Discography CD Box-set. ... more

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