The Wild Wind Howled

from Wytches & Cunningfolk Alternative Mixes by The Dolmen

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Every album should have a fun kick ass track and we chose this little beaut as ours.
Penned by Taloch and sung by Dolmen Drummer Chris Harris

This track follows the story of two brothers.
One brother who is a ruthless outlaw is returning home after many years to catch up with his younger brother and family.
As he is riding along the famous Camedown Ridge in Dorset he spies a traveller coming towards him and decides to shoot and rob him.
As he draws closer the traveller bids him greeting and he answers with a pistol shot straight between the eyes.
he gets down from his horse and turns the lifeless body over and notices a familiarity in the travellers face......
that's when he realises its his young brother....
who knowing of his return had ridden out to meet him.

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The night was all but damned
Upon the camedown ridge
A rider full of hate prowling on the edge
A head full of murder
As a man rode to death
Heading at eachother on
this fated ridge

And the wild wind howled
And the wild wind cried
And thunder crShed
in a deathly sky

A Silhouette of death,
As the traveller aproached
as they came in closer
The greeting one did spoke
With a cracking sound of flintlock
as a pistol fast replied
And a whistling ball of led
Hit him straight between the eyes

And the wild wind howled
And the wild wind cried
And the thunder crashed
in a deathly sky

A fallen horseman lay
Dead upon the ground
highwayman dismounted
Dismayed at what was found
The dead man heaped up on the ridge
Familiar to his look
God, this was his brother
His life, he’d bloody took.

And the wild wind howled
And the wild wind cried
And the thunder crashed
in a deathly sky

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from Wytches & Cunningfolk Alternative Mixes, released January 23, 2018

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