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Trad., music by Kerry Andrew

The Danish folk tradition is wonderfully heavy on the supernatural, and when looking for transformation songs in Cecil Sharp House’s Ralph Vaughan Williams Library, I fell up on this fantastically gory text. Originally called The Woman As Werewolf, there’s some great shape-changing and a classic evil stepmother whose curse comes back, quite literally, to bite her. The tune for this song is my own.

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My mother she bore at eventide
E'er crow of the cock herself had died
And when eight years had been and gone
My father brought a new wife home

I gently tapped on her robe so fine
'O, welcome dear mother of mine.'
She spurned me back with a scornful heel
''Tis you that shall my temper feel.'

She turned me into scissors small
And bade I should not grow at all
But to many a tailor I was dear
With me their cloth they loved to shear

She to a sword then shaped my form
And bade me to toil in battle's storm
A sword blade I was keen and bright
To many a squire and gallant knight

Then as a wolf by her cruel spell
She bade to roam the wood and dell
She bound me keep this luine form
'Til I drank of my brother's blood so warm
And that she hoped I ne'er should get
For brother had I not one yet

For eight long years I roamed this way
and many a hardy man did slay
But when nine years were nearly spent
She then with an little infant went

So hidden behind a rock I lay
Just where the lady must take her way
I seized upon her purple gown
And out of the saddle dragged her down
I bit the flesh from her left side
With claws I tore her open wide

I took the babe so small and good
And bore him off the the murky wood
I bit the boy in his little toe
And made tiny streamlet flow
I took one taste brother's blood
And then on my feet a girl I stood

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from hare // hunter // moth // ghost, released November 3, 2023
Kerry Andrew: vocals
Peter Ashwell: marimba and vibraphone
Produced by: Kerry Andrew & MaJiKer
Mixed by: MaJiKer
Mastered by: Ian Carter

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GUARDIAN FOLK ALBUM OF THE MONTH 2023

‘English avant-folk at its finest’ Observer

'Imagine Bjork working her magic on the English folk scene' UNCUT

YOU ARE WOLF is the alt-folk project of award-winning British composer, vocalist and author Kerry Andrew. They present folk songs and lore with unusual arrangements drawing on electronica, drone, contemporary classical and alt-rock. ... more

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