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The Coral Caves of Runcorn Gap (Hoylake Edit)

from Coral Caves EP by Errol Nomad and the Random Tandem

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It was a stormy day in Liverpool Bay
As the Viking fleet headed home
They pitched and yawed in the thund’rous roar
Their sails grew tattered and torn
As they headed home
Headed home
Headed home
Headed home on a stormy day

They’d traded with the Irish for livestock and hides
For gold, tin and copper with the Cornish Celts
They had solid blocks of salt from the Cheshire mines
And fleeces from the foothills of the Welsh
Then they’d headed home
Headed home
Headed home
Headed home on a stormy day

The nine daughters of the waves were the billow maidens
Who wildly danced through that winter night
Their mother, Rán, had her drowning net with her
And the sky was filled with fire
As they headed home
Headed home
Headed home
Headed home on a stormy night

The swell was huge and the sky was grim
On the mighty surge Rán pulled them in
As drunk old Ægir stirred the briny broth
He smashed the fleet apart on the Wirral rocks
And took nine score young warriors back
To a grave beneath the waves
To drink golden mead in the coral caves
Of Runcorn Gap

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from Coral Caves EP, released June 21, 2014
Written by Pete Jinks
Recorded at Crash by Andy Fernihough

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Pete Jinks Runcorn, UK

Pete Jinks studied guitar and bass at London's ICMP. He previously led the exploratory outfit Errol Nomad and the Random Tandem. Currently releasing new material under his own name, still mixing the exploratory and the mainstream.

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