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My Leven Love

from This Fleeting Liberty by Alan Dickson

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This is a Scottish adaptation by Alan Dickson of the Irish song 'My Lagan Love', likening Scotland to a beautiful woman, which expresses a desire for freedom and love of the land through poetic sexual desire. In Celtic folklore the lenanshee is a fairy lover, a beautiful women, who takes a human love.

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Where Leven sings lullaby
There comes a dark maid
The twilight gleam is in her eye
Her hair tied in a braid
And like a love-sick lenashee
She has my heart in thrall
Nor life I owe nor liberty
For love is lord of all

I often walk around her shore
By Lomond and Tullochewan
Her welcome, like her love for me
Is from her heart within
And, when I stir my foot to go
'Tis leaving love and light
To feel the wind of longing blow
From out the dark of night

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from This Fleeting Liberty, released May 9, 2017
'My Lagan Love' was composed by Joseph Campbell, from Ireland and published in 1904.

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Alan Dickson Glasgow, UK

Scottish singer songwriter Alan Dickson was born in Leith but now based in Glasgow. Alan writes about life in Scotland and beyond, mainly of a personal and political nature.

Descended from a Leith docker, he remarks: "as life mimics art I'm just like my grandfather, only he used a rivet gun and I use a guitar."

Among his influences are Robert Burns, Woody Guthrie, Bob Dylan and Dick Gaughan.
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