Album tracks

1. Awake, Awake
2. : A love song derived from the Song of Solomon.
3. Sweep, Chimney Sweep
4. : This is from the Copper family, here sung a capella. (Roud 1217)
5. The Wife of The Soldier
6. : An anti-war song, a sentiment also on Fighting for Strangers on the band's previous album, Rocket Cottage.
7. The Victory
8. : First published by John Ashton (in Modern Street Ballads) in 1888. According to Roy Palmer this is a re-writing of a ballad about General Wolfe.
9. The Black Freighter
10. : A barmaid in The Threepenny Opera has a fantasy about cutting rich men down to size. The song is also known as Pirate Jenny.
11. Some Rival
12. : This 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).
13. Treadmill Song
14. : 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.
15. Seventeen Come Sunday
16. : An early version of this song is by Robert Burns (1792). A tale of very young love.