2:forty Cheyenne Brown & Seylan Baxter Cheyenne Brown (harp) and Seylan Baxter (cello and vocals) delight in quirky, innovative arrangements of traditional songs and tunes, exploring the creative possibilities of these majestic instruments. Harp and cello exchange melody and accompaniment, whether in driving reels or haunting slow airs. Songs are lyrical and expressive, with thoughtful accompaniment on harp and cello. Buy this album now    CD: £12.00 + p&p

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1.	Gude Claret	2:23
2.	Pennan Den	3:23
3.	The Haggis/Prince Charlie	1:52
4.	Twa Corbies	3:52
5.	Green Loch/Rizla/Laura and Athena	4:37
6.	Dusty Miller/Cobbler’s Hornpipe/Wee Willy Gray	2:59
7.	Time Wears Awa	5:58
8.	To Answer the Peacock	2:58
9.	Fisherman’s Wife	3:49
10.	Dumfries House/ Dusty Windowsills/ Miss Ann Munro	4:01
11.	The Bonnie Lad that Handles the Ploo	3:03
12.	An Seallach mo Dheireadh do Tearlach	3;27
13.	Skye Barbeque/ Tam Lin/ Tam the Bam	5:44

 

2:forty
Scottish Harp, Cello and Song
Cheyenne Brown and Seylan Baxter
36 harp strings and 4 cello strings

1 Gude Claret (trad arr. Baxter/Brown)
We couldn't let our debut CD go by without a good drinking song! Learned from Rod Paterson.

Gude Claret best keeps oot the cauld
An drives awa the winter soon
Maks a man baith gash an bold
An heaves his saul beyond the moon

Fling on coals an ripe the ribs
Beek the hoose baith but an ben
The mutchin stowp it hauds but dribs
Then lets get oot the tappit hen

Leave to the gods yer ilka care
If they think it worth their while
They can a rowth o blessins spare
Which will oor fashious fears beguile

(Chorus)

Net neist day dae as it thinks fit
Only the present minute's oors
On pleasure let's employ oor wit
An laugh at fortune's feckless poors

(Chorus)

2 Pennan Den (James Watt, arr. Baxter/Brown)
Pennan is between Fraserburgh and Banff.

3 The Haggis / Prince Charlie (trad arr. Baxter/Brown)

4 The Twa Corbies (trad arr. Baxter/Brown)
This well known ballad is one of our favourites - it's got all the essential ingredients for a good tale.

As I was walkin all alane
I heard twa corbies makin mane
The tane untae the tither did say o
Whaur sall we gang an dine the day o
Whaur sall we gang an dine the day?

It's in ahint yon auld fell dyke
I wot there lies a new slain knight
And naebody kens that he lies there o
But his hawk an his hound and his lady fair o,
His hawk an his hound an his lady fair.

His hound is tae the hunting gane
His hawk is tae fetch the wild fowl hame
His lady's taen anither mate o
So we may make oor dinner swate o
We may mak oor dinner swate.

You'll sit on his white hause bane
And I'll pike oot his bonny blue een
We a o lock o his gouden hair o
We'll theek oor nest when it grows bare o
We'll theek oor nest when it grows bare.

There's mony a ain for him maks mane
But nane sall ken whaur he is gane
Ower his white banes when they are bare o
The wind sall blaw for ever mair o
The wind sall blaw for ever mair.

5 Green Loch /Rizla/ Laura and Athena (Gary Coupland/Charlie McKerron/Hanneke Cassel arr. Baxter/Brown)
A set of recently composed tunes, an air and two reels, written by a box player and two fiddlers.

6 3/2s (trad arr. Baxter/Brown)
Two sparkling little Burns songs sandwiching a tune called the Cobbler's Hornpipe, from the Playford 11th edition, published in 1701.

The Dusty Miller
Hey the dusty miller and his dusty coat
He can win a shilling or he spend a groat
Dusty was the coat and dusty was the colour
Dusty was the kiss that I got frae the miller

Hey the dusty miller and his dusty sack
Leese me on the calling, fills his dusty peck
Fills the dusty peck and brings the dusty siller
I wad gie my coatie for the dusty miller

Wee Willie Gray
Wee Willie Grey and his leather wallet
Peel a willa want to be him boots and jaiket
Wee Willie Grey and his leather wallet
Peel a willa want to be him boots and jaiket

The rose upon the brier will be him hose and doublet
The rose upon the brier will be him hose and doublet
The rose upon the brier will be him hose and doublet
The rose upon the brier will be him hose and doublet

Wee Willie Grey and his leather wallet
Twice a lillie floer will be him sark and cravet
Wee Willie Grey and his leather wallet
Twice a lillie floer will be him sark and cravet

Feathers o a flea wid feather up his bunnet
Feathers o a flea wid feather up his bunnet
Feathers o a flea wid feather up his bunnet
Feathers o a flea wid feather up his bunnet

7 Time Wears Awa (trad arr. Baxter/Brown)
This song of the passing of time and nostalgia for carefree youth came from the singing of the late Willie Scott, border shepherd.

Oh, but the oors rin fast awa, like the Kelvin tae the Clyde
Sin on its bonnie gowan banks I wooed thee for my bride
My ain dear love, sae sweet and young, sae airtless and sae fair
Then love was a the grief we kent, and you my only care

Time wears awa, time wears awa, an winna let us be
It stole the wild rose frae my cheek, and the blythe blink frae yer ee

When woods were green an floers fair, when ye were a my ain
I little thoucht what years would bring o poortith, toil and pain
Some waeful oors hae spread their wings, dark shadows oer oor lot
Sin like twa cushats o the glen we strayed in this dear spot

(Chorus)

The voices frae those happy days steal on oor dreams by nicht
And cherished memories rise and glow wae depairted licht
But still the birds and burnies sing their wildered melodies
As in the gowden dawn o life when we were young and free

(Chorus)

8 To Answer the Peacock (Brian McNeill arr. Baxter/Brown)

9 The Fisherman's Wife (Ewan MacColl, arr. Baxter/Brown)
A song from the wife's perspective, waiting for her husband to return from the fishing.

A the week your man's awa
An a the week ye bide yer lane
A the while yer waitin for
The minute that he's comin hame

Ye ken what way he has tae work
Ye ken the oors he has tae keep
An yet it maks ye angry when
Ye see him just come hame tae sleep

Through the months an through the years
While you're bringing up the bairns
Your man's awa tae here an there
Following the shoals o herring

And when he's back there's nets tae mend
You've maybe got a score or twa
And when it's done he'll rise and say
Wife, it's time I was away

So work and wait and dree your weird
And pin your faith in herring sales
And aftimes lie awake at nicht
In fear and dread o winter gales

For man maun work tae earn their breid
And men maun sweat tae gain their fee
And fishermen will aye gang oot
As lang as fish swim in the sea

10 Dumfries House / Dusty Windowsills /Arthur's Seat (trad/John Harling/trad arr. Baxter/Brown)
The first jig was taught to Cheyenne by Wendy Stewart, a fantastic harper who lives just outside Dumfries. Dusty Windowsills is a popular Irish session tune and Arthur's Seat is from the Athol Collection. Cheyenne gets very excited about the fact that Arthur's Seat in Edinburgh is a volcanic plug from the Carboniferous Age, over 350 million years old!

11 The Bonnie Lad that Handles the Ploo (trad arr. Baxter/Brown)
The bonnie lad that handles the ploo is the cutest of all the farm help, and really of all the lads in the village. A bit like today's handsome firemen!

Success, aye, and flourish tae a barley riggs
A health untae the fairmer, likewise until his lads
Wishing them tae prosper by the handling o the ploo
An the kissin o a bonnie lass when there's naethin else tae do

The tailor he's a laddie that sews at a cloot
He'll tak an auld coat an he'll turn it inside oot
He'll turn it inside oot an he'll mak it look like new
But he's faur frae like the bonnie lad that handles the ploo

The mason he's a laddie that's prood o his post
An t'were na for the mason we wid a dee wae frost
But he like a the rest wid hae little for tae do
An t'were na for the bonnie lad that handles the ploo

The smith he's a laddie that's a o'er wae brook
But when he sees a bonnie lass, sae blythesome does he look
He kisses her an claps her an ca's her his doo
But he's faur frae like the bonnie lad that handles the ploo

Credits

Celloharp Records
Recorded at RSAMD, Glasgow, Scotland by Bob Whitney
Produced by Seylan Baxter, Cheyenne Brown and Bob Whitney

2007 

Thanks to Bob Whitney. 
Photos:  Louis De CarloDesign: 
Pedro Aibeo Cheyenne’s harp is a walnut Dusty Strings. 
Seylan’s cello’s name is Charlie.

Title:	2:forty
Artists:	Cheyenne Brown & Seylan Baxter
Instruments:	Harp, Cello & Voice
Genre:	Traditional
Format:	Audio CD
Our Ref:	A0205
MCPS:	2:forty
Label:	Celloharp Records
Year:	2007
Origin:	UK