(12) The Harvest Knot

Instrumental Intro

Verse 1

The furrows run deep where the old plough turned

Salt of my brow on the earth

My father sowed rye

My mother reaped oats

and I keep the wheel going round

Pre-Chorus

Oh the seasons don't wait

and the frost doesn't ask

The harvest is heavy to hold

Chorus

Wheat and barley and a Celtic knot

woven through the grain

Wheat and barley and a Celtic knot

I'll carry it home again

Verse 2

A knot in the straw keeps the spirit in

Loop over loop never ends

The bagpipe hums low

The ground drinks the rain

The circle begins where it stops

Pre-Chorus

Oh the seasons don't wait

and the frost doesn't ask

The harvest is heavy to hold

Chorus

Wheat and barley and a Celtic knot

woven through the grain

Wheat and barley and a Celtic knot

I'll carry it home again

Bridge

Dig with me

Reap with me

Give back what the soil lends

Dig with me

Reap with me

The land remembers its friends

Chorus

Wheat and barley and a Celtic knot

woven through the grain

Wheat and barley and a Celtic knot

I'll carry it home again

Instrumental