2025 Competition Entry:

Cowrie Beach by Mark Gamon

Genre

Folk

Artist

Co-writer(s)

no

Performer(s)

Mark Gamon – vocal, guitar
Matt Kelly – fiddle, viola, vocal
Rhys Wilson – guitar, vocal
David Cammish, bass, vocal

Description

My heart lies in Cornwall.

Bio

Recorded with Thursday’s Band.

Lyrics

There will come a time again
When I will go with thee
We’ll go along the road
And touch the sea
We’ll go along the road again
To where the breakers roll
We’ll go along the road
To Cowrie Beach

Remember how the morning sun danced across the sand
The barefoot boys running to the sea
Up into the dunes and let the beachgrass cut your hand
There are sunken forests here no-one can see

The sand between your toes is made of quartz and limpet shell
The mackerel men are coming in to dock
Out along the Doom Bar, white horses jump the swell
They say a man once swam to Newland rock

Everybody’s all at sea, no-one reads the chart
Life is just a fragment in the void
Some will prosper, some will love, some will come apart
But what we were will never be destroyed

There will come a time again
When I will go with thee
We’ll go along the road
And touch the sea
We’ll go along the road again
To where the breakers roll
We’ll go along the road
To Cowrie Beach

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