Smuggler's Rock

from A Million Tears by Tim O'Connor & Debbie Pullen

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(Tim O'Connor & Debbie Pullen)

On a stormed black night,
When the only light is the beacon,
Bright from the cliff’s great height,
I can hear their creams, always in my dreams,
I was eight years old,
Hungry scared and cold,
But a good lad does as he is told.

There is no dock at smuggler’s rock,
The sky is dark and the rocks are sharp,
It a second to chance the light,
And hear the ship’s crew in their plight.

The tunnels dug by my father and brothers,
Enough for me but too narrow for others,
A darkened path from cliff to farm,
I’m a child, I really mean no harm,
Heavy barrels: contraband,
Stolen by my innocent hand.

The women wait arround the bay,
There’ll be no ships in port today,
Their loved ones smashed or drowned at sea,
Blame our master don’t blame me,
For I’m the boy who climbs the heights,
To welcome ships with beacons so bright.

credits

from A Million Tears, released July 4, 2017
written & © Tim O’Connor & Debbie Pullen 2017

produced by toc
recorded at Bywater Studios for Uilleand Music, Summer 2017

Uilleand Music vcbd066 for Confidential Records (UK) Ltd.
Published by Maori Music: PRS 159804347

performed by Tim O’Connor & Debbie Pullen

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Tim O'Connor Hull, UK

Tim O'Connor is an English Folk/Rock songwriter based in Yorkshire, UK, Performing & recording since the late Seventies, Tim has released a large catalogue of albums, 39 to date, available on his record label, Uilleand Music.

Band Projects:

cowfisH, from 1992 onwards.

The Ant Farm Collective, from 2014-2017.

Tim O’Connor & the Poachers 2018- ... more

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