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Edinburgh (Scotland!) is a wonderful city in summer and if you've been there, the chances are you have ended your night out as the sun rose again. As much a cameo of the festival city, as a love song...

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David Kilpatrick

Solo singer-songwriter and tunesmith playing British fingerstyle steel and nylon string guitar, and historic instruments. Scots and Irish influences.

I've been writing and playing songs and tunes since teenage years in folk clubs and pubs. I co-organise the Kelso Friday night live music sessions at the Cross Keys (hosted singaround 7.45-10pm) and Cobbles Inn (10-12pm open mic with The Cobbles Band) with the help of many friends. All welcome! Visit us at kelsofolkandlive co uk. It is worth clicking on the tab because the sound quality of my tracks is far higher than the auto player on this page. Many can be streamed or downloaded at 320KBps and the enhancement for solo guitar/voice far exceeds the benefit you get for highly compressed band recordings. My recordings are full dynamic, not compressed. Just select Hi-Fi for the first song, and an MP3 high bitrate window will open - you will still get a sequence of songs. Most of my downloads are free, but some 320KBps tracks are paid-for. These are selected because they make up my main instrumental album. I now have a YouTube page and have started doing some video recordings for fun: @daviddkilpatrick I have mainly played Lowden guitars since 1999. I current play a 1985 S5FN (nylon string), 1986 S22 (jumbo O-size mahogany/cedar), and 1995 S32 (small body rosewood/spruce). I also play my own 1997-built Martin 'kit' Grand Auditorium rosewood/spruce, a Sigma OM-T, Furch Little Jane, Tacoma Papoose, Guild 8-string baritone, Vintage V880 parlour guitar and Gordon Giltrap signature model, a Troubadour mahogany/spruce classical and an Adam Black 12-string. And that's just the guitars... also viola, mandolin, mandola, waldzither, bouzouki, Appalachian dulcimer, low D whistle, keyboards.

Song Info

Genre

Acoustic • Acoustic Folk

Charts

Peak #24

Peak in subgenre #3

Author

David Kilpatrick

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Uploaded

November 24, 2003

Track Files

MP3

MP3 3.4 MB • 128 kbps • 3:41

Story behind the song

From some unusual chord changes on the guitar, the song grew over a short period. It is a strange kind of song since rhymes, and the pattern of the words, don't really matter much. I think my writing here was influenced most by the songs of the late Isaac Guillory, who came here often. The lyrics are quite changeable when sung, since the song was written originally 'in my head' and not on paper. This represents a reasonable set! Played on my new Lowden O-12 guitar, drop D tuning.

Lyrics

I remember one night you were mine
I looked into your eyes
And time
Stood still
We talked, we talked, we talked, we talked, we talked
Till the sun came up over Edinburgh

Candelight and roses and red wine
Lamplight shines
On the wet streets
Where the rain has fallen all night long
And we walked, we walked, we walked we walked back home
As the sun came up over Edinburgh

Music from an open doorway
Fills the night
Someone drops a bottle on the stone
Mutters curses softly underneath his breath
As the last taxi
Makes its way back home
And the sun comes up over Edinburgh

Monday morning, back to work again
But I can't concentrate
I dream of you and think of when
I'll see you soon as daylight ends and we'll watch
The sun go down over Edinburgh

(repeat verse 2, and instrumental to end)

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