Catch The Sparrow at The Bridge Folk Club, 6 June 2022

Inland (Words; Edna St Vincent Millay, Tune; Suze Terwisscha)

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Suze Terwisscha is a regular, and very welcome, singer at The Bridge Folk Club. She sings professionally as Catch The Sparrow. See her on Facebook at –
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Edna St. Vincent Millay wrote this as a poem in the first half of the 1900s. Suze added the melody and arrangement

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Inland – Edna St Vincent Millay

People that build their houses inland,
People that buy a plot of ground
Shaped like a house, and build a house there,
Far from the sea-board, far from the sound

Of water sucking the hollow ledges,
Tons of water striking the shore, -
What do they long for, as I long for
One salt smell of the sea once more?

People the waves have not awakened,
Spanking the boats at the harbor’s head,
What do they long for, as I long for, -
Starting up in my inland bed,

Beating the narrow walls, and finding
Neither a window nor a door,
Screaming to God for death by drowning, -
One salt taste of the sea once more?

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