Biography:
Will Varley (born in Brixton, London, on 7 March 1987) is a British folk singer and co-founder of the arts collective Smugglers Records.
Varley spent his teenage years in Kingston playing solo shows and singing in bands. His debut album was released on Smugglers Records in July 2011. He plays an explosive and subversive brand of British folk music.
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Other songs:
- Advert Soundtrack
- As For My Soul
- As The Crow Flies
- Dark Days Away
- From Halcyon
- I Got This Email
- Is Anyone Out There
- King For A King
- Newborn
- One Last Look At The View
- Outside Over There
- Seize The Night
- Send My Love To The System
- Seven Days
- Something Is Breaking
- Statues
- The Endlessness And The Space Between
- The Man Who Fell To Earth
- The Sound Of The Markets Crashing
- These Are The Days
- This House
- To Build A Wall
- Until The Grass Gets Greener
- We Dont Believe You
- We Want Our Planet Back
- Weddings And Wars
- When Youre Gone
- Where The Wild Wind Blows
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[Chorus]
Em D
Outside over there
Em D
Where the war was raging
Em D
Run little child far from home
C D Em
the lord will take you with him
[Verse 1]
Em D
As mushrooms high as mountains
C Em
Came from neptunes submarines
Em D
A little girl named Ida
C Em
Lived in a shack up by the sea
Em D
Her daddy was away at war
C Em
Her mother'd lost her mind
Em D C D Em
So Ida in the arbour softly sang her lullaby
C C Em
To hush her baby sister and to calm her mother's shakes
Em D C D Em
And by the waves a-crashing for her father she would wait
[Verse 2]
Em D C Em
One evening Ida sang her songs soft as May breeze blows
Em D C Em
When a blinding flash of light came her eyes began to close
Em D C Em
Devil's in their hooded cloaks through the window climbed
Em D C D Em
They took her sister from her crib and ran off into the night
C C Em
When Ida looked to check the crib when finally she arose,
Em D C D Em
She saw a figure made of ice melting by the stove
[Chorus]
Em D
Outside over there
Em D
Where the war was raging
Em D
Run little child far from home
C D Em
the lord will take you with him
[Verse 3]
Em D C Em
Ida put on her mother's coat and walked out to the cliffs,
Em D C Em
The sky was scarred with napalm the hills were drowned with mist
Em D C Em
She buried a rose in the ground and started up the road
Em D C D Em
To find her sister in the night and safely bring her home
C C Em
There were soldiers in the twilight, thieves drinking by the caves
C D C D Em
She just listened out for her daddy's voice to come drifting across the waves
[Verse 4]
Em D C Em
On the edge of Neptune's kingdom there was a forest and it was said,
Em D C Em
That any man that went in there was never seen again,
Em D C Em
But Ida clutched her mother's coat and pressed on through the trees,
Em D C D Em
For in the ground she saw the tracks of wretched Devil's feet
C C Em
The path ahead grew fainter as the branches tied in knots
Em D C D Em
And Ida felt like every step she took was being watched
[Chorus]
Em D
Outside over there
Em D
Where the war was raging
Em D
Run little child far from home
C D Em
the lord will take you with him
[Verse 5]
Em D C Em
There deep among the wild wood the girl began to tire
Em D C Em
When she came across a cabin windows flickered with a fire
Em D C Em
She knocked upon the wooden door an old man showed his face
Em D C D Em
With kind eyes like her father's and a beard long and grey
C Em
She saw her sister sleeping near two angels wearing hoods
Em D C D Em
She had some supper then slept a while to dream about the woods.
Em D C Em
After three days passed the mist had cleared the sky was clear and bright,
Em D C Em
She took her sister in her arms and bid the man goodbye
Em D C Em
She ran back through the forest saw no soldiers nor no thieves,
Em D C D Em
Till she found herself back up at the shack by the sea
C Em
But when she flung her arms around her mother she shed tears
Em D C D Em
For the woman stood before her was blind and aged by thirty years
Em D C Em
She said "Oh my darling Ida, my wait is at an end,
Em D C D Em
As this rose bush grew I prayed each day that we would meet again",
C Em
So they sat out in the evening and the sun shone all around
Em D C D Em
Till early the next morning when their bodies were found.
[Chorus]
Em D
Outside over there
Em D
Where the war was raging
Em D
Run little child far from home
C D Em
the lord will take you with him
Em D
Outside over there
Em D
Where the war was raging
Em D
Run little child far from home
C D Em
the lord will take you with him
[Verse 1]
Em D
As mushrooms high as mountains
C Em
Came from neptunes submarines
Em D
A little girl named Ida
C Em
Lived in a shack up by the sea
Em D
Her daddy was away at war
C Em
Her mother'd lost her mind
Em D C D Em
So Ida in the arbour softly sang her lullaby
C C Em
To hush her baby sister and to calm her mother's shakes
Em D C D Em
And by the waves a-crashing for her father she would wait
[Verse 2]
Em D C Em
One evening Ida sang her songs soft as May breeze blows
Em D C Em
When a blinding flash of light came her eyes began to close
Em D C Em
Devil's in their hooded cloaks through the window climbed
Em D C D Em
They took her sister from her crib and ran off into the night
C C Em
When Ida looked to check the crib when finally she arose,
Em D C D Em
She saw a figure made of ice melting by the stove
[Chorus]
Em D
Outside over there
Em D
Where the war was raging
Em D
Run little child far from home
C D Em
the lord will take you with him
[Verse 3]
Em D C Em
Ida put on her mother's coat and walked out to the cliffs,
Em D C Em
The sky was scarred with napalm the hills were drowned with mist
Em D C Em
She buried a rose in the ground and started up the road
Em D C D Em
To find her sister in the night and safely bring her home
C C Em
There were soldiers in the twilight, thieves drinking by the caves
C D C D Em
She just listened out for her daddy's voice to come drifting across the waves
[Verse 4]
Em D C Em
On the edge of Neptune's kingdom there was a forest and it was said,
Em D C Em
That any man that went in there was never seen again,
Em D C Em
But Ida clutched her mother's coat and pressed on through the trees,
Em D C D Em
For in the ground she saw the tracks of wretched Devil's feet
C C Em
The path ahead grew fainter as the branches tied in knots
Em D C D Em
And Ida felt like every step she took was being watched
[Chorus]
Em D
Outside over there
Em D
Where the war was raging
Em D
Run little child far from home
C D Em
the lord will take you with him
[Verse 5]
Em D C Em
There deep among the wild wood the girl began to tire
Em D C Em
When she came across a cabin windows flickered with a fire
Em D C Em
She knocked upon the wooden door an old man showed his face
Em D C D Em
With kind eyes like her father's and a beard long and grey
C Em
She saw her sister sleeping near two angels wearing hoods
Em D C D Em
She had some supper then slept a while to dream about the woods.
Em D C Em
After three days passed the mist had cleared the sky was clear and bright,
Em D C Em
She took her sister in her arms and bid the man goodbye
Em D C Em
She ran back through the forest saw no soldiers nor no thieves,
Em D C D Em
Till she found herself back up at the shack by the sea
C Em
But when she flung her arms around her mother she shed tears
Em D C D Em
For the woman stood before her was blind and aged by thirty years
Em D C Em
She said "Oh my darling Ida, my wait is at an end,
Em D C D Em
As this rose bush grew I prayed each day that we would meet again",
C Em
So they sat out in the evening and the sun shone all around
Em D C D Em
Till early the next morning when their bodies were found.
[Chorus]
Em D
Outside over there
Em D
Where the war was raging
Em D
Run little child far from home
C D Em
the lord will take you with him
Willeke Alberti
Willem Barnard
Willem Vermander (...)
Willemijn May
Willet
William Croft
William Cummings
William Davis Ha (...)
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William DeVaughn