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Meg says: This song is about sheep and what they mean to the Shepherd who looks over them. Findlay brought the idea to the table when I was up in Glasgow writing with him, he had some beautiful opening lines and we went from there. I had to learn to sing the word teuchit and I’m basically Scottish now.

Fin says: A teuchit is a peewit or lapwing or Northern lapwing or green plover or vanellus vanellus. It depends where you live and how much of a twitcher you are. The teuchit storm is the bad weather that lands just after the *insert favoured name for teuchit here* arrive. I wrote the first couple of verses and the last verse to this in the Shake the Chains tour van in February 2018. It was inspired by a conversation about what politicians used to stand for and what they’ve now become. I had always viewed them as wise shepherds looking after their flock rather than self-serving insensitive blow hards that harvest our money and time… Anyway.. Because I’m an eternal optimist the song has a happy ending.

Meg and I finished the song at my kitchen table adding her inspired chorus, verse and clever twiddly guitar bits.

I had to teach Meg to say the word teuchit and now she thinks she’s Scottish.

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The Shepherd (Counting Sheep)

In the middle of March the teuchit storm
At the corner of spring when the first lambs are born
Sun white and staggering, dozy and small
The shepherd is there to take care of them all

Spindle and the spool,
Scour the wild wool,
While we’re counting sheep

The shepherd he watches and nurtures until
Dippings and clippings moved from the hill
Sold at the market to be bred or be killed
When the teuchit returns, new lambs in the field

Wind the wiry fleece,
Cutlet fresh to eat
While we’re counting sheep

But our shepherd wanders far from the herd
Cares nothing for nurture only for yield
While predators circle our shepherd’s asleep
Dogs run among them, scattering sheep

Spindle and the spool,
Scour the wild wool,
While we’re counting sheep
Wind the wiry fleece,
Cutlet fresh to eat
While we’re counting sheep

Door slams hard and shuts out the storm
The shepherd returns with a lamb in his arms
The forces of nature have forced him to nurture,
To tend and to care for and be a good farmer.

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from Story Song Scientists, released March 1, 2019
Findlay Napier- Electric Guitar / Vocals
Megan Henwood - Acoustic Guitar / Vocals

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Megan Henwood & Findlay Napier UK

Oxford's Megan Henwood and Glasgow's Findlay Napier met on a songwriting retreat at Snape Maltings, Aldeburgh in 2016.

“Fancy writing a song about maths?” Napier enquired. And so the seed for the Story Song Scientists was sewn.

They have toured this EP across the UK and their 2nd EP will be released alongside their November 2021 tour.

www.findlaynapier.com/story-song-scientists
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