Storm Force Ten - Track Listing

Track Listing

1. Awake, Awake (Traditional]) – 5:07

   A love song derived from the Song of Solomon.

2. Sweep, Chimney Sweep (Traditional) – 4:44

   This is from the Copper family, here sung a capella.

3. The Wife of The Soldier (Brecht, Scott) – 2:40

   An anti-war song, a sentiment also on "Fighting For Strangers" on the previous album.

4. The Victory (Traditional) – 8:37

   First published by John Ashton ("Modern Street Ballads") in 1888. According to Roy Palmer this is a re-writing of a ballad about General Wolfe.

5. The Black Freighter (Brecht, Weill) – 5:59

   A barmaid in "The Threepenny Opera" has a fantasy about cutting rich men down to size.

6. Some Rival (Traditional) – 3:23

   This beautiful love song is possibly as old as 1656. Maddy sings it with a gentle acoustic guitar accompaniment. It is also known as "Some Tyrant" and "A Rival Heart" (Roud 587).

7. Treadmill Song (Traditional) – 6:11

   Treadmills were used in English prisons from 1779 to 1902. This was first written down in 1906 in Somerset. also known at "The Gaol Song" or "Durham Gaol" (Roud 1077)

8. Seventeen Come Sunday (Traditional) – 5:09

   An early version of this song is by Robert Burns (1792). A tale of very young love. (Roud 277)