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What Will We Do When We Have No Money

from Taking Flight by Amelia Hogan

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    Taking Flight Audio CD comes with a beautiful tri-fold, Eco-Wallet two pocket case, of both full color and black and white images, liner notes, lyrics, and details about the music for this project.

    On "Taking Flight," Amelia Hogan sings both traditional and contemporary folk music with lilting grace and subtlety. Weaving a mysterious old magic, Hogan transports her listeners out of time and place with haunting melodies and evocative storytelling. The 16-track album features one original (the title track), which is a joyous a cappella number in four-part harmony, a number of traditional, public domain songs, and interpretations of songs by contemporary
    songwriters including Laurie Lewis, Lankum, David Francey, Anais Mitchell, and Jez Lowe. Photos: Venee Call-Ferrer

    Produced by Hogan at Foxtail Sound in Dixon, CA, with celebrated musicians Ray Frank (co-producer), Richard Mandel, David Brewer, Christa Burch, Rebecca Richman, Maureen Brennan, and Marla Fibish, Taking Flight is a cathartic and healing endeavor. Songs were chosen to acknowledge grief, loss, heartache, hope, and ultimately a joy-filled conclusion. The theme of birds runs through the project. Often seen as a symbol of loss and sorrow, birds also represent hope and healing and the ability to find beauty in the midst of hardship. The intent of this work is to take the listener on a journey through grief and out the other side, as a bird taking flight might.

    Hogan shared, "For many of us, the few years since the spring of 2020 have been full of grief and loss, between death, illness, cultural changes, and unprecedented political upheaval. It feels as if nothing has been left untouched. As I worked through these feelings in my own life, I kept returning to singing and sharing songs related to birds as solace, comfort, and inspiration. No matter how much we feel we’ve been grounded, we can always find a way to take flight again."

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"Collected by Jim Carroll and Pat McKensie from Mary Delaney, an Irish Traveller, Carroll and McKenzie note that the song as performed by Mary had not been found elsewhere. See the Irish Traditional Music Archive (ITMA) website to hear the field recording.” -Julie Henigan, Irish and American traditional singing scholar.

I first heard this sung in the early 1980s in a session in San Francisco, and then the recording of June Tabor and Maddy Prior’s Silly Sisters’ album in the 1990s. The song became relevant to me again with the onset of the pandemic, detailing how to pick oneself up and find joy when you’re knocked down.

*NB: The use of the "T word" in the third verse is often used as a racial slur referring to tinsmiths–historically, one of the chief occupations of Irish Travellers. Using any other word there removes necessary context, and misses the weight of the singers’ experience in saying the song

lyrics

What will we do when we have no money?
Oh true lovers what will we do then?
Only hawk through the town for a hungry crown,
And we’ll yodel it over again.
And what will we do if we marry a sailor?
Oh true lovers what will we do then?
Only sail on his ships and we’ll play on his lips,
And we’ll yodel it over again.
And what will we do if we marry a soldier?
Oh true lovers what will we do then?
Only handle his gun and we’ll fight for the fun,
And we’ll yodel it over again.
And what will we do if we marry a tinker?*
Oh true lovers what will we do then?
Only mend a tin can and walk on with me man,
And we’ll yodel it over again.
And what will we do if we have a young daughter?
Oh true lovers what will we do then?
Only throw her on our back and walk on for the craic,
And we’ll yodel it over again.
So what will we do when we have no money?
Oh true lovers what will we do then?
Only hawk through the town for a hungry crown,
And we’ll yodel it over again.

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from Taking Flight, released December 1, 2022
What Will We Do When We Have No Money - Trad
Amelia Hogan-vocals, Richard Mandel-guitar

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Amelia Hogan San Francisco, California

Amelia Hogan sings traditional Irish, Scottish, British American, and Contemporary folk music with lilting graces and powerful subtlety. You’ll be transported by her singing,
She has enchanted audiences from Oregon to New York, Dublin to San Francisco and back again. ... more

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