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. +