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Just As The Tide Was Flowing

from Home Waters Live by Sam Carter

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  • Compact Disc (CD) + Digital Album

    When Sam Carter envisioned his acclaimed fourth album Home Waters - released in the early throes of the pandemic - as 'a search for a sense of belonging and stability in unfamiliar territory', he couldn't have known how prescient that would turn out to be.

    Sam returns now with Home Waters Live, his first post-lockdown performance with the Home Waters Quartet, captured in exquisite studio-quality audio. This Bandcamp-exclusive album features a brand new version of the traditional English song Just As The Tide Was Flowing, as well as all the songs of Home Waters, alongside selected songs from Sam's back catalogue. The perfect audio companion to the online premiere of Home Waters In Concert, which airs on Bandcamp on 24th September, to coincide with the album release.

    Includes unlimited streaming of Home Waters Live via the free Bandcamp app, plus high-quality download in MP3, FLAC and more.
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  • Home Waters artwork woodcut print, designed and hand-printed to order by Sheffield artist John Pedder. Sold unframed, this landscape print measures around 25" by 13" (slightly bigger than a gatefold vinyl cover). Limited to 50 signed numbered editions.
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  • Full Digital Discography

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    Get all 8 Sam Carter releases available on Bandcamp and save 15%.

    Includes unlimited streaming via the free Bandcamp app, plus high-quality downloads of Home Waters Live, Home Waters, How The City Sings, Live At The Union Chapel, The No Testament, Lumpy's Lullaby, Keepsakes, and Here In The Ground. , and , .

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lyrics

One morning in the month of June,
Down by a rolling river,
There a jolly sailor chanced to stray,
There he beheld some lover.
Her cheeks were red, her eyes were brown,
Her hair in ringlets hanging down;
Her lovely brow without a frown,
Just as the tide was flowing.

“My pretty maid,” to her he said,
“How come you here so early?
My heart by you it is betray'd
And I might love you dearly.
I am a sailor come from sea,
If you will accept my company
For to walk and view the fishes play,
Just as the tide was flowing.”

No more did stay, but on the way
They both did gang together;
The small birds sing, the lambs did play,
And pleasant was the weather.
They being weary both sat down
Beneath the trees with the branches round;
And what they said will never be known
Just as the tide was flowing.

Upon the grass she then did roll,
Her colour it kept changing.
This pretty maid called out: “Alas!
Don’t let your mind be ranging.”
She gave him twenty pounds in store
Saying, “Meet me when you will there's more.
For a jolly sailor I adore
Just as the tide was flowing.”

So they kissed, shook hands and then did part
The sailor drank his brandy
And to keep his shipmates in good cheer
The lady's gold came handy.
And with some other young girl he’ll go
To the public bar where the brandy flows
Show me the lad who wouldn’t do so
Just as the tide was flowing.

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from Home Waters Live, released September 24, 2021

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‘Sam Carter is a brilliant guitarist and songwriter who combines the observational with social comment and personal reflection’ Songlines

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