Sky Boat

from Footprints From A Tribal Id 2012 by Ash Mandrake

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So ends "Footprints from A Tribal Id"

This track is concerned with endings and is a funerary. As the tree that may have been planted in the opening track is burned as an offering or as fuel to cremate a loved member of the tribe who joins his ancestors in the sails of a boat that sails through the sea of stars.

Copyright Ash Mandrake 2012

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We put to flame this fallen giant
From seed to mighty tree made grow in seven ages of our time

We call upon the waves of the air...
We call upon the waves of the air...

Waves of the air take the smoke of our brother.
Let him fill the sails of the sky boat,
And with our go befores there find his comfort.

Join with our voices...
Join with our voices...

Join with our voices
Sing with us, all you who lived, and loved, and fought before.
Join with our voices...
Join with our voices...

Farewell to you our brother
May you drift now through the sea of stars.
In the sails of the sky boat,
Amonst your tribe
And in our time, there shall we find you.

Copyright Ash Mandrake 2012

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from Footprints From A Tribal Id 2012, track released August 5, 2013
Paul Nocher for the loan of a recording system and Mic
Adam at The Percy Community Centre, Bath for use of a room for recording.

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