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    Compact Discs are the traditional method of listening to music in late 18th Century Ireland, Scotland, and the Canadian Maritimes. Using an ancient technique called "digitization", Celtic craftsmen spun silver into tiny ones and zeroes using looms, then sold the precious discs to their English masters. At parties, the English aristocrats would then produce special music-goats, which would decode the ones and zeroes and bleat the tunes they read. While ancient Celtic digitization and goat-reading have been lost to history, we present the next best thing.

    Modern Compact Discs are manufactured from plastics rather than silver, but they still retain a beautiful shine on the reverse side, which sparkles in the sun and will dazzle your friends. Using laser technology, the discs are decoded into electrical signals in something called a "CD Player", which are then transferred into soundwaves via magnets in things called "speakers". (CD Player and Speakers sold separately)

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The song had a deep impact on me and I wanted to convey the sadness and compassion for so many men, who broke themselves for a better life. -Rick

lyrics

To all Irishmen both young and stern with adventure in your souls,
There's better ways to spend your days than working down the hole.

Chorus:
I was tall and true all of six-foot-two but they broke me across my back.
By a name I'm known and it's not my own, they call me Crooked Jack.

And the ganger's blue-eyed boy was I, Big Jack could do no wrong,
And the reason simply was because I could work hard hours and long.

Chorus

And I curse the day that I went away to work at the hydro dam,
The hopes and fears and sweat and tears and all in shuttering jams.

Chorus

And I've seen many men before their days with their faces long and grey.
I never thought so soon would mine hang down the same old way.

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from Looking Out for Better Weather, released September 30, 2020
Crooked Jack, lyrics by Dominic Behan, melody traditional, and Good Morning to your Nightcap, traditional.

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The Residuals Saskatoon, Saskatchewan

Saskatchewan's one-of-a-kind Prairie Celtic band, the Residuals, has been playing acoustic folk music for over ten years. Drawing on Irish, Scottish, and Maritime music, they are at the forefront of a living Prairie Celtic tradition.

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