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Brand New Legacy

from No Strangers Here by SixMileBridge

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The first song I ever wrote.
I grew up in the cactus riddled red dirt of West TExas, where so many Irish had settled before the Famine and lived very much like they had back home. By my grandmother's generation all the stories had been lost, and a sort of defiant air told me not to ask.
They left for a reason. They didn't look back. They came for something new. They didn't want to pass down the heritage, period.

As a result I didn't know Irish music growing up. i found it at 18 years old, it took me in, and the rest is my life.

The autobiographical first verse is followed by the story of a friend who's entire Irish heritage was wiped out by the family's conversion from Catholicism to the Mormon faith. My friend lost access to information and it left him feeling deeply split and empty.

The third verse tells of another friend who had no idea why she was so passionately drawn to the music of Scotland. She always wondered if it was "in her blood", but would never know because of the tradition in Texas to start again with a fresh sense of belonging and identity.

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brand new legacy
m. drennon


davey lives out on the plain
he knows the silence in his home
hides secrets and stories of people and places
long long forgotten long left behind
oh grandmother where did my family come from
remember for me what you’ve heard
my darling it’s over it’s worn out and gone
even as she recalls her own grandmothers words

go now leave now leave me right here
i can’t take no more of this lingering
go and find a new life forget all this strife
go find yourself a brand new legacy

davey goes to church and prays
in a faith just eighty years old
it’s a feeling he’s had since he was a lad
that something was his but never was told
oh who was that man they call patrick the saint
who taught all his people to see
did he speak the truth then did he touch my own kin
did he leave me his own legacy

he wonders why the songs of ireland
strike deep in his heart and his blood
he won’t know his clan fought against poverty wrought
by the landlords and kings throughout his homeland
when the chieftain was hunted and fled for his life
his true love had bid him goodbye
knowing she’d never see him or speak of him more
and his story would die with the darkening sky

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from No Strangers Here, released July 11, 2000

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Maggie Drennon New York, New York

Maggie Drennon is a premiere voice in Celtic singing, a long standing influence in folk music. She was a founding member of Ceili's Muse in 1989, and SixMileBridge in 1997

Now, with a solo performance that is meaningful yet lighthearted, she is deeply devoted to sharing Celtic traditions with American audiences.

Most importantly she brings us the soaring voice that will inspire your heart!
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