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Hunting the Wren

by Finnegan Tui

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Hunting the Wren is a cover of a beautiful song by the Irish band Lankum

lyrics

Sharp is the wind
Cold is the rain
Harsh is the livelong day
Upon the wide open plain

By Donnelly's hollow
Under sad gorse and furze
There lies a young wren oh
By the saints she was cursed

The wren is a small bird
How pretty she sings
She bested the eagle
When she hid in its wings

With sticks and with stones
Among the small mounds
They come from all over
To hunt the wren on the wide open ground

With cold want and whisky
She soon is run down
Her body paraded
On a staff through the town

Attacked in the village
And spat on in town
They come from all over
To hunt the wren on the wide open ground

They flock round the soldiers
In their jackets so red
For barrack room favours
Pennies and bread

The soldier is rough
In anger or fun
And he causes much bloodshed
With his big musket gun

The wren is a small bird
How pretty she sings
She bested the eagle
When she hid in its wings

With sticks and with stones
Among the small mounds
They come from all over
To hunt the wren on the wide open ground

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released September 23, 2021
Artist: Finnegan Tui
Producer: Matt Lawrence & Finnegan Tui
Sound Engineer: Dom Morely
Mastering: Simon Francis
Double Bass: Ben Nicholls
Bodhran: Dermot Sheedy
Organ: Ross Stanley
Percussion: Tom Potter
Trumpet: Jamie Brownfield

Composer: Iam Bernard Lynch
Arranger: John Oliver Murphy
Arranger: Radie Peat
Arranger: Cormac Eoin Dermody
Arranger: Darragh Lynch

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Finnegan Tui London, UK

Finnegan Tui is a multi-instrumentalist, songwriter and producer from New Zealand. Ever since his first gig at the age of six he has been obsessed with creating music and has decided his life to sound. After moving to England, he received a scholarship to study Jazz and Electronic Music at the Guildhall School.

He is now 22 and has just released his debut EP Zephyr. ... more

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