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    Includes unlimited streaming of The "Dog Show Sessions" Live via the free Bandcamp app, plus high-quality download in MP3, FLAC and more.
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This land is barren and broken
Scarred like the face of the moon
Our tongue is no longer spoken
The towns all around face ruin
Will there be work in New Brunswick?
Will I find gold in the Cape?
If I tunnel way down to Australia
Oh, will I ever escape?

Where there's a mine or a hole in the ground
That's what I'm heading for that's where I'm bound
So look for me under the lode and inside the vein
Where the copper, the clay, the arsenic and tin
Run in your blood they get under your skin
I'm leaving the county behind and I'm not coming back
So follow me down cousin Jack

The soil was to poor to make Eden
Granite and sea left no choice
Though visions of heaven sustained us
When John Wesley gave us a voice
Did Joseph once come to St Michaels Mount
Two thousand years pass in a dream
When you're working your way in the darkness
Deep in the heart of the seam

Where there's a mine or a hole in the ground
That's what I'm heading for that's where I'm bound
So look for me under the lode or inside the vein
Where the copper, the clay, where the arsenic and tin
Run in your blood they get under your skin
I'm leaving the county behind I'm not coming back
So follow me down cousin Jack

I dream of a bridge across the Tamar
And it opens us up to the East
In my dreams I see the English they live in our houses
I see the Spanish, fishing in these seas

Where there's a mine or a hole in the ground
That's what I'm heading for that's where I'm bound
So look for me under the lode or inside the vein
Where the copper, the clay, where the arsenic and tin
Run in your blood they get under your skin
I'm leaving the county behind and I'm not coming back
So follow me down cousin Jack
Follow me down cousin Jack
Follow me down cousin Jack

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from The "Dog Show Sessions" Live, released February 1, 2023

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Show of Hands are an English acoustic roots/folk duo formed in 1986 by singer-songwriter Steve Knightley and composer and multi-instrumentalist Phil Beer. Joined by singer and double-bassist Miranda Sykes in 2004, and percussionist Cormac Byrne in 2019, Show of Hands continue to perform as a duo as well as in the four-piece band format. ... more

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