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‘Kings and Weavers’ tells of that story and introduces the characters in our set of songs – Valentina and Raoul. I imagine they are similar to this couple here in Victorian artist, John Everett Millais painting of a Huguenot couple. The young woman is trying to make her lover wear the white scarf which would protect him from death, and he, despite his love for her refuses to renounce his faith. I named them Valentina and Raoul after German composer Giacomo Meyerbeer’s Huguenot couple in his 1837 opera – but they are different people, symbols of many people fleeing persecution and making a new life in a new and strange land, even here, today.

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Flower of kings and of weavers
Crushed underfoot on the mountainsides of Gaul
Leaves of green for a queen and a thousand different colours
Comfort of the soldier on the wall
.
I will come for you
I will find you…
.
Your flower theatre will remind me
Of the gardener and the skillful artisan
Of Reformation time, and the people
On a journey to find a new homeland
.
I will come for you
I will find you…
.
The flower of kings will live forever
The flower of weavers will go on
Spell or cure on a starry night
The moon in the middle of the flower shines bright
I can see it too babe
.
I will come for you
I will find you…
.
Flower of kings
Flower of weavers
Green leaves for a queen
And colours for all
From high in the mountains
To the Huguenot gardens…
I’m thinking of you…standing by the wall

Valentina and Raoul, in the Huguenot garden,

Valentina and Raoul, by the wall…

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from The Auricula Suite by The Auricula Suite Ensemble, released March 6, 2017
Louise Duffy-Howard: Vocals, Guitar, Bass
Richard Duffy-Howard: Guitar
Amanda Lowe: Hammer Dulcimer, Violin
Quentin Budworth: Hurdy Gurdy, Cajon


© Duffy-Howard 2013

Words written by Louise Duffy-Howard except The Same Sky by Richard and Louise Duffy-Howard. Music composed by Louise Duffy-Howard except My Ancestors were French by Corey Clough-Howard.

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