Tam Lyn Retold (feat. Eliza Carthy)

Don't be scared

It was the first of May

A righteous holiday

It was when the workers day

Celebrate fertility

It was the first of May

A righteous holiday

It was when the workers day

Celebrate fertility

It was the first of May

She stepped into the club

Lookin' for the holy herb

And a magical dub

Aversion for the rhythm

Her passion shining bright

Her future in her hand

And she was holding it tight

So she found that holy herb

It was sweet Arabiyya

She burned that holy herb

In a gold-plated chillum

And she moved to the bass

She retold to creation

They was time and space

For his heavenly maiden

It was the first of May

A righteous holiday

It was when the workers day

Celebrate fertility

It was the first of May

A righteous holiday

It was when the workers day

Celebrate fertility

He was a mover and a shaker

Who was prone to temptation

He stepped up in the angel

And made his objection

Saying (...?...) to partake this herb

He cursed and she would fumble

And she called him absurd

Then she took him to a place

That was not very far

They connected at the waist

In the back of her car

Her innocence was gone

In just under an hour

He was forced to hang on

While she flashed her girl power

It was the first of May

A righteous holiday

It was when the workers day

Celebrate fertility

It was the first of May

A righteous holiday

It was when the workers day

Celebrate fertility

Love is impatient

It ignores tradition and convention

It is not bound by human constructs

Jurisprudence and the laws of men

Love reaches out and holds open-hearted

It demands attention

It is in a world of its own

Yet it connects worlds that will forever

Be set apart

Well as we talk of glory and the soul

As we talk of glory and the soul

Well as we talk of glory and the soul

As we talk of glory and the soul

Oh I know I am

And the fever I have

As we talk of glory in my soul

Make love not war

This is how we do it

Make love not war

This is how we go

Make love not war

This is how we do it

Make love not war

This is how we flow

Make love not war

This is how we do it

Make love not war

This is how we go

Make love not war

This is how we do it

Make love not war

This is how we flow

Our man had moved on

Said he was wild

Then our lady found

She was heavy with child

When she told her father

He said go seek him out

She found him six months later

Down town hangin' about

He said who's the daddy

She said you are the one

He said I am an alien

And quite soon I'll be gone

'Cos the land immigration

Want to get rid of me

There's no peace in my nation

I'm a war refugee

There's no peace in my nation

I'm a war refugee

There are people in uniform

Out to get me

There's no peace in my nation

There's nowhere I can hide

If you really do love me

Will you stay by my side?

I can groove on the dance floor

But my baby's quite clear

I don't know all the answers

But I'm trying to relate

Since I've been in exiled

I just don't know my fate

And a best-selling tabloid

Always reeling with hate

There's no peace in my nation

I'm a war refugee

I'm surrounded by war

But there's war inside me

There's no peace in my nation

And so I'll be deported

So I need you (...?...)

For tomorrow in court

I may need you to be yourself

Positive thought

'Cos I wanna be wit' choo

I wanna live

So I need you to (...?...)

So the next day in court

So (...?...} really tightly

etc. to be continued