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Dreaming
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Think of all the things we've been able to do in this incredible age of the world, all the places we have been, everything we have seen together. If w'd both been born 2000 years ago this would have been a dream...
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Solo singer-songwriter and tunesmith playing British fingerstyle steel and nylon string guitar, and historic instruments. Scots and Irish influences.
I've been writing and playing songs and tunes since teenage years in folk clubs and pubs. I co-organise the Kelso Friday night live music sessions at the Cross Keys (hosted singaround 7.45-10pm) and Cobbles Inn (10-12pm open mic with The Cobbles Band) with the help of many friends. All welcome! Visit us at kelsofolkandlive co uk. It is worth clicking on the tab because the sound quality of my tracks is far higher than the auto player on this page. Many can be streamed or downloaded at 320KBps and the enhancement for solo guitar/voice far exceeds the benefit you get for highly compressed band recordings. My recordings are full dynamic, not compressed. Just select Hi-Fi for the first song, and an MP3 high bitrate window will open - you will still get a sequence of songs. Most of my downloads are free, but some 320KBps tracks are paid-for. These are selected because they make up my main instrumental album. I now have a YouTube page and have started doing some video recordings for fun: @daviddkilpatrick I have mainly played Lowden guitars since 1999. I current play a 1985 S5FN (nylon string), 1986 S22 (jumbo O-size mahogany/cedar), and 1995 S32 (small body rosewood/spruce). I also play my own 1997-built Martin 'kit' Grand Auditorium rosewood/spruce, a Sigma OM-T, Furch Little Jane, Tacoma Papoose, Guild 8-string baritone, Vintage V880 parlour guitar and Gordon Giltrap signature model, a Troubadour mahogany/spruce classical and an Adam Black 12-string. And that's just the guitars... also viola, mandolin, mandola, waldzither, bouzouki, Appalachian dulcimer, low D whistle, keyboards.
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David Kilpatrick
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David Kilpatrick
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November 25, 2003
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MP3 4.9 MB 128 kbps 5:22
Story behind the song
A song written for Shirley, who was five thousand miles away at the time. It's all true. There was another verse which never made it; just an image of one evening when we drove frantically up the slopes of Vesuvius, then ran out of breath to the rim of the crater, just to see the sun finally dip into the sea beyond the bay of Naples. For the rest, it's a song for anyone like us. We know where we started from, but not how we got where we are now...
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Dreaming David Kilpatrick © 1997, for Shirley @ 25 years Some time I think these years with you Must all have been a dream And we have just been sleeping Since we were seventeen We've walked roads built by long-dead kings Drunk water from their sacred springs And heard the song the warm night sings As she flies in on velvet wings As red as vintage wine We've flown above high mountains We've sailed the deepest seas Thrown coins in every fountain And travelled as we pleased And though the world holds much to fear We've never let it venture near But chose the safest course to steer For what is now and what is here Is all we hoped to find I might have lived a warrior When wars were fought with swords I might have been a poet Before men mastered words Two thousand years ago, or ten I might have run this race of men Some other where, some other when But would you (still) have been here then And would you have been mine? Some times I think these years with you Must all have been a dream...
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