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My Mum got told this story by her Great-Grandmother when she was on her deathbed and I felt such a tragic story of love and racial hate needed to be kept alive, and so I put it into a song
Features the beautiful vocals of Kate Beresford, lead singer of funky folk band Kismet Hardy

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Back round the turn of the 20th century
There was a maid by the name of Izzy
Not from nobility but neither was she poor
Now she’s known forever more as

The first girl in Northamptonshire, to love a dark skinned man
The last girl in Northamptonshire, tarred and feathered as she ran

There was a labourer on Cank Farm
Both tall and wide, never did any harm
Straight from the new world descent from slavery
And then he met the maiden Izzy

The first....

Izzy taught letters to the Cank farm girls
They loved her charm and her long luscious curls
They weren’t the only ones, the labourer too
Izzy looked back, her heart grew

The first...

Illicit love was all they ever knew
But of a strength known to few
They met in the fields and forests of Cank farm
And couldn’t know she would soon come to harm

The first...

Build into downstrums on Am7

Soon the Sprattoners they found out
They cried for shame up went a shout
Women plucked chickens while they still flapped
The men burnt pitch and set a trap...for

They caught Izzy at the top of the Sands
The men poured tar. The women held her hands
Threw on the feathers such pain she never knew
They let go. Down the sands Izzy flew

Watching on was Izzy’s youngest niece
Weeping fell to her knees
Kept the secret ‘til her death bed
There to her Great-Granddaughter said....never forget

The first...

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from A Time and a Place, released October 12, 2015
Lew Bear - Guitar, Vocals, Lyrics, Arrangement
Kate Beresford - chorus vocals/backing vocals

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