1. Wide-Eyed and Strong 3:00
2. Reincarnation 3:56
3. All in Good Time 3:55
4. Feel Your Way 3:47
5. House of the Rising Sun 3:51
6. Camogli Jigs 4:45
7. Winter is the Coldest Time 6:36
8. Burning of the Piper's Hut Set 3:46
9. Wayfaring Stranger 4:57
10. Dust, Din and Diesel 3:04
11. Remember Us 4:16
12. Sail Away 3:47
13. Man Gave Names to All the Animals 5:06
14. Down in the Cave Reels 4:40
© & ℗ Feel Your Way Music 2025
Cat No. FYW001
www.broombezzums.com
Credits
All songs- words & music by Mark Bloomer/Andrew Cadie © 2025, except 5, 8 & 9 (Traditional, arr. Bloomer/Cadie © 2025) & 13 (words & music Bob Dylan Copyright © 1979 by Special Rider Music)
Mark Bloomer: Vocals, guitar, bouzouki, bass drum, loops
Andrew Cadie: Vocals, fiddle, guitar, slide guitar, Northumbrian pipes, harmonium, piano, bass
Recorded from September 2023 - September 2024 at Wishing Well Studio, Weisenheim, Germany - Except 5 & 6, recorded on location at Heiligenbösch Church, Leisel
Produced, engineered & mixed by Andrew Cadie
Mastered by Marko Schneider at Imagion / Skywalk
Cover Image: Jules Cadie
Band Photo: Jolyon Holroyd
Packaging Design: Jan Oelemann
Thanks
Thanks to Thomas Lorenz for the use of his lovely old upright piano.
Team:
Live sound engineer Bernd Windisch; Gudrun Walther & Falk Bruder for booking support; Neil Grant for ongoing advice and support; Michaela Haitz for Winter Carolling with us.
Thanks to our families, the venues for booking us, the audience for coming, and to the press and bloggers who wrote about us.
Huge thanks to all the people who supported our crowdfunding campaign and made this album possible. Here’s an album for our 20th Year as Broom Bezzums.
Let’s all keep our eyes wide open to injustice as we remain standing strong together!
—————-
LYRICS
STANDING STRONG
We’re on the streets to show our mettle
Wide-eyed and standing strong
We’re here to grab the stinging nettle
Wide-eyed and strong
They are few and we are many
Wide-eyed and standing strong
We’re a pound and they’re a penny
Wide-eyed and strong
Let it grow Let it grow
They’re creeping in to open spaces
Wide-eyed and standing strong Idle hands and hidden faces
Wide-eyed and strong
Their vicious lies will not divide us
Wide-eyed and standing strong
As long as there is hope inside us
Wide-eyed and strong
Let it grow Let it grow
Sowing seeds of disillusion
Wide-eyed and standing strong
Ploughing furrows of confusion
Wide-eyed and strong
I won’t betray a friend or neighbour
Wide-eyed and standing strong
For money joy or wealth or labour
Wide-eyed and strong
Let it grow Let it grow
From the Danube to the mighty Rhine
Wide-eyed and standing strong
To the Baltic and the North Sea brine
Wide-eyed and strong
This land is here for all to savour
Wide-eyed and standing strong
With not a word of fear or favour
Wide-eyed and strong
Let it grow Let it grow
REINCARNATION
As we wade our way, through the river
As we swim our way through life ́s great wondrous ocean
Hear the calling
And know that we ́ll live again
As we watch our children grow
As we give them the seeds that they will sow
For the future
And know they ́ll live again
As I look upon these lands before me
With a raging in my soul
As I wonder where this life will take me
Where can I call home
Ask yourself the great question
Does this life have
A purpose and a meaning
Is the truth that
One day we ́ll live again?
So it ́s time to ask what we do with this gift of life that ́s ours
Why do we look into each others eyes and feel that we`re apart
We ́re still wading through the river
We ́re still swimming through this life ́s great wondrous ocean
To hear the calling
And know that we ́ll live again
Now`s the time again to ask what you do
With this gift of life that ́s ours
We should look into each others eyes
And know that we ́re a part
Of each other
ALL IN GOOD TIME
When will the bright light shine?
All in good time
At the end of the dark, cold mine
All in good time
They're working us hard and long
And keeping the pressure on
All in good time, my friend
All in good time
We'll get our dividend
All in good time
Eight hours a days, me boys
All in good time
Building these pointless toys
All in good time
For food on the table
A roof and a gable
All in good time, my friend
All in good time
We'll get our dividend
All in good time
A doctor to cure me
All in good time
A singer to soothe me
All in good time
A bed and a cradle
Some soup and a ladle
All in good time, my friend
All in good time
We'll get our dividend
All in good time
They're throwing food away
All in good time
When we're hungry they make us pay
All in good time
We've been to the moon and mars
Can reach up and touch the stars
All in good time, my friend
All in good time
We'll get our dividend
All in good time
One farmer can feed us all
All in good time
So why do we toil and crawl?
All in good time
You can fly to the queen bee
And she'll feed you freely
But there's no milk and honey
If you ain't got no money
All in good time, my friend
All in good time
We'll get our dividend
All in good time
Now it's one in a hundred
All in good time
We've caught them: Their hands are red
All in good time
They've got our prosperity
Locked up, so fetch the key
All in good time, my friend
All in good time
We'll get our dividend
All in good time
All in good time, my friend
All in good time
We'll get our dividend
All in good time
FEEL YOUR WAY
As the sunlight breaks through the trees
As the Autumn ground catches the leaves
As you wave your hands and shout with ease
The thousands fall to their knees
Feel your way
In whose name did you decide that your way is the way to be
Just how far must we look until we finally can see
That your words are only words
The ticking clock goes round and round
We run towards a golden sound
Sweet as honey, fine as rum
Then we’ll know our time has come
Feel your way
In whose name did you decide that your way is the way to be
Just how far must we look until we finally can see
That your words are only words
HOUSE OF THE RISING SUN
There is a house in New Orleans
They call the Rising Sun
And it's been the ruin of many a poor boy
And God, I know I'm one
My mother was a tailor
She sewed my new blue jeans
And my father was a gamblin' man
Way down in New Orleans
And the only thing a gambler needs
Is a suitcase and a trunk
And the only time he's satisfied
Is when he's a trump
Oh, mother, tell your children
Not to do what I have done
To spend your lives in sin and misery
In the house of the rising sun
I got one foot on the platform
And another on the train
And I'm going back to New Orleans
To wear that ball and chain
There is a house in New Orleans
They call the Rising Sun
And it's been the ruin of many a poor boy
And God, I know I'm one
WINTER IS THE COLDEST TIME
Winter is the hardest time
The coldest time
Branches mark the dark skyline
Run if you can
The endless fields and the rattling train
Run if you can
The piercing stares that bring me pain
Run if you can
Winter is the coldest time
The hardest time
Winter is the coldest time
The hardest time
Shouting men when I close my eyes
Run if you can
Drifting boats under open skies
Run if you can
The ground is moving and I hide my tears
Run if you can
From moans and cries I shield my ears
Run if you can
Winter is the coldest time
The hardest time
Winter is the coldest time
The hardest time
The monkey laughs and the tiger roars
Run if you can
When darkness comes I feel its claws
Run if you can
When fireworks crack I smile and cry
Run if you can
A reaching hand and a smiling eye
Run if you can
Winter is the coldest time
The hardest time
Winter is the coldest time
The hardest time
Winter is the coldest time
WAYFARING STRANGER
I am a poor, wayfaring stranger
Travelling through this world below
There is no sickness toil or danger
In that fair land to which I´ll go
I’m going home, To see my Farther
I’m going home no more to roam
I am just going over Jordan
I am just going over home
I know black clouds lay o´er above me
I know my pathway lays rough and steep
But shining fields lay out before me
Where weary eyes no more shall weep
I am going home to see my mother
I am going home no more to roam
I am just going over Jordan
I am just going over home
I´ll soon be free from every trial
This form will rest beneath the sud
I´ll drop the cross of self denial
And enter in that home with god
I am going home to see my saviour
I am going home no more to roam
I am just going over Jordan
I am just going over home
DUST, DIN & DIESEL
Some will bless your cotton socks
Put sugar in your tea
Others jam you in the stocks
And throw away the key
And it's dust, din and diesel
The stinking, screaming brakes
We’re rolling down to the old quayside
Our ship it lies in wait
There’s some that milk the dairy cow
That’s grazing on the land
To lords and ladies they will bow
I’ll never understand
And it's dust, din and diesel
The stinking, screaming brakes
We’re rolling down to the old quayside
Our ship it lies in wait
The king gave you a golden groat
And sent you off to war
His name is on your sinking boat
But he’s safe on the shore
You’re told that there’s a better place
Where all your dreams can come true
Now you’re the fox so start the race
Cos they’re coming, they're coming, they're coming after you
And it's dust, din and diesel
The stinking, screaming brakes
We’re rolling down to the old quayside
Our ship it lies in wait
Dust, din and diesel
The stinking, screaming brakes
We’re rolling down to the old quayside
Our ship it lies in wait
They’re coming, they're coming, they're coming after you
They’re coming, they're coming, they're coming after you
REMEMBER US
Remember us cos we’re the ones who helped you
Remember times of greater strife
Remember us cos we’re the ones who care
Remember us cos we were there
Think back before the helping hand of duty
Was there to hold us when our time it came
Nye Bevin gave us a thing of simple beauty
Think back before and think again
Remember us cos we’re the ones who helped you
Remember times of greater strife
Remember us cos we’re the ones who care
Remember us cos we were there
Think back before when we were factory fodder
Think back before we ever had a say
In that short time when we helped out one another
We drove the horses, held the reins
Remember us cos we’re the ones who helped you
Remember times of greater strife
Remember us cos we’re the ones who care
Remember us cos we were there
Think back to all those false promises of freedom
That every man could serve himself alone
They lead us out of our Garden of Eden
Think back before - what have we done?
Remember us cos we’re the ones who helped you
Remember times of greater strife
Remember us cos we’re the ones who care
Remember us cos we were there
So think out loud when you open up your paper
Who’s allowed to tell us what we see
Is this a ploy, our liberties to taper
With your voting pen just think again
Remember us cos we’re the ones who helped you
Remember times of greater strife
Remember us cos we’re the ones who care
Remember us cos we were there
So who are we, just singing out so freely
To offer help and solidarity
You’re one of us, we mean it so sincerely
So join up hands and we’ll be free
Remember us cos we’re the ones who helped you
Remember times of greater strife
Remember us cos we’re the ones who care
Remember us cos we were there
SAIL AWAY
Sail away dreamer, sail away true
If I had a boat then would sail on with you
If I was a good man, I would let you go
If I was a quiet I would shout no more
Leave you to find your way home in the dark
Leave you to dream, dream on as you are
Sail away dreamer, sail away true
If I had a boat then would sail on with you
Dreams are for living and not to ignore
Find them in your heart and open the door
Sail away dreamer don ́t follow their gold
Fortune is yours what you find in your soul
So open your heart, Let the world in
Hoist your sails, set your course sail on with the wind
Sail away dreamer, sail away true
If I had a boat then would sail on with you
If I was an honest man, I would tell the truth
That life ́s hard for dreamers, dreamers like you
If I was an honest man, I would tell no lies
When you lower your sails
, that ́s when your dreams die
So Sail away dreamer, sail away true
If I had a boat then would sail on with you
MAN GAVE NAMES TO ALL THE ANIMALS
Man gave names to all the animals
In the beginning, in the beginning
Man gave names to all the animals
In the beginning, long time ago
First animal that he did meet
Had wool on its back and hooves on his feet
Eating grass on a mountainside so steep
Oh, think I'll call it a sheep
Man gave names to all the animals
In the beginning, in the beginning
Man gave names to all the animals
In the beginning, long time ago
Next animal lived on a hill
Chewing up grass until she was filled
He saw milk coming out but he didn't know how
Ah, think I'll call it a cow
Man gave names to all the animals
In the beginning, in the beginning
Man gave names to all the animals
In the beginning, long time ago
Next animal left a muddy trail
A real dirty face and a curly tail
He wasn't too small and he wasn't too big
Ah, think I'll call him a pig
Man gave names to all the animals
In the beginning, in the beginning
Man gave names to all the animals
In the beginning, long time ago
Next animal was smooth as glass
Slithering way on through the grass
He saw him dissappear by a tree near a lake
Ah, I think I'll call it a snake
Man gave names to all the animals
In the beginning, in the beginning
Man gave names to all the animals
In the beginning, long time ago
