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Mal Webb - There’s Never Been a Saint Kilda (Official Music Video)

In the time that I was mixing this song, I bumped into my friend, James Cattell http://www.honeyweatherandspeight.com.au , after we'd both been for a swim in Port Phillip Bay, and I mentioned that I'd written a song about the Lady of St Kilda (a ship which had been moored not far from where we were standing in the water, nearly 200 years ago). When he heard my song, he said, "I think that needs to be a shadow puppet show"... and thusly, it became so! James, Kylie Morrigan and I came up with the concept, then we had a crafternoon with friends to cut out all the puppets. Then Ky's son Dominic Hook filmed it and edited it (with Ky and I). The song is written, played, recorded and mixed by me, with Kylie Morrigan on violin and voice, and Jim Murray on Irish button accordion. It was mastered by Myles Mumford. You can read more about the song at: http://malwebb.com/slkilda.html . [Chorus] There’s never been a Saint Kilda That suburb by the bay was named for a sailing ship named after a lady Jailed on an island by her husband... way to the west of Scotland And that St Kilda archipelago’s dodgy etymology may well well involve a two-tongue tautology Doubly dubbed in Gaelic and Norse, Tobar Childa*, is where Martin Martin sought the source But the main island and another further afield translate as Deathly, Westerly, Shepherd or Shield That’s Hirta and Skildar, which led, for sure, to a helter skelter of nomenclature Through decades of maps, names morphed and swapped spots, Skildar lost an R, but it gained a dot After the S and thence folks must’ve surmised that someone called Kilda had been canonised Beatified with the power to bewilder But [Chorus...] Rachel Chiesley was ten years old when she saw her father hung Hanged, for the murder of the judge who has settled his divorce, thus Rachel, too, was highly strung But she found a beau in James, Lord Grange, and their marriage produced nine kids But as her looming gloom consumed her groom, their doomed union was soon on the skids Yeah, but James was Jacobite rebel and Rachel had threatened to expose his sympathies So he faked her death and had her forcibly transported westerly through the Hebrides For eight years she’d languish, she didn’t speak the language, the arctic gales they chilled her Then she was moved to Skye, again to falsely die, another three years mustn’t’ve thrilled her ’Til her third death sadly stilled her heart But [Chorus...] Sir Thomas Acland’s wife was touched by Lady Grange’s tragic tale So Thom named his schooner the Lady of St Kilda and soon for Melbourne it set sail And there on the north-east Port Phillip shore, it was moored for more than a year So, rather than Punk Town, Green Knoll or Fareham**, the faux holy handle did indelibly adhere Indeed, on the whim of the wife of a boat builder [Chorus...] Hmmm, but was the lady, in truth, Hirta’s Female Warrior***? And what of the monk and the spring? Forsooth, the mystery history of the moniker donned upon this Hobson Bay foreshore’s a convoluted thing And the city name blame game aim of this little ditty’s now pretty fairly fulfilled, aahh... But if there were a Saint Kilda Then maybe they’d be named the patron saint of hardy hot-headed women Hard-done by cagey cold-hearted men Of crazy etymology crossing geography and canonising cartography, but then again [Chorus...] Sing it! [Chorus...] Lyrics©Mal Webb 2019 I did rather a lot of research for this song! The History of St Kilda 1840-1930 by John Butler Cooper was very informative, but also https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lady_of... the guts of it. *There's a well on Hirta called "Tobar Childer" and historian Martin Martin noted that the both words of which mean "well", in Gaelic and Norse respectively... well well! **Yes indeed, these names were considered! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/St_Kild... ***There's some speculation that the "Lady of St Kilda", after which the boat was named, was actually the "Female Warrior" or Amazon woman of St Kilda, a legendary giantess that Martin Martin documented stories of: https://northernearth.co.uk/the-amazo...