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A rope weaved of human hair, from the Newton Abbot Museum collection, was the unusual inspiration for this song. In the 1920’s Maude Albrighten lived next door to the rope makers, they knew her well and she would often watch them work. After having her hair cut one day the rope makers offered to produce a rope using Maude’s hair. Her hair was so extraordinarily thick and strong the rope was then used to make Maude her very own swing.

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Ropewalk
If you walk from the tower
Past the church in my hometown
Past my school, past the yard
There’s a room, above the bar

And there she stayed and watched them work
On ropewalk

She cut her hair
Was three feet long
Beautiful hair, heavy and strong
They took her hair and weaved her a rope
Beautiful hair, beautiful rope

And they twisted and twisted and twisted
And they twisted and twisted and twisted
On ropewalk, on ropewalk
On ropewalk, on ropewalk

Now she glides feeling so free, so alive
Nothing but shadows here now
On ropewalk, on ropewalk
On ropewalk, on ropewalk

She cut her hair
She cut her hair
She cut her hair
She cut her hair

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from How Does Your Land Lie?, released December 12, 2012

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Nicky Swann England, UK

Award winning UK singer songwriter. Winner of Spiral Earth Best Original Song for 'Because of You' Her songs are rooted in human nature, history and her home in Devon.

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