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The Pampa's My Home (single)

by Charlie O'Brien

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This is the first single from my coming album "Exile & Adventure, Irish Song of the Pampa and further Afar." The Pampas are the wide grasslands synonymous with rural regions of Buenos Aires in which Irish settled in the 19th century. I found the words to "The Pampa's My Home" in an old newspaper from 1873 called "El Monitor de La Campaña." The lyrics were signed "A Wandering Tip." Tip also penned another five poems in that paper. The Pampa's My Home will also be the closing piece in a new documentary I’ve been working on called “The Trackless Wild.” The film will explore the crossroads between myself and Tip. With my resurrection of his lyrics, he time-travels to our timeline as I muse and sing my way into his past.

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Steer my bark, steer my bark o’er the wild Pampa main,
O ye winds be more calm there are shoals on the plain,
I’m alone, I’m alone on a rough rolling foam,
My bark is now launched and the pampas my home,

Then farewell oh farewell to that isle in the east
On whose green covered mountains my eyes may ne’er feast,
It was there, it was there in a happy gay band,
I first dreamed the dream of the great Pampa land

Then guide her, I’ll guide her for hopes at the prow,
Though the clouds are still black and the thunder peals now,
Ha! She’s struck, my barks struck by that flash from the sky,
She’s immersed and oh God am I doomed now to die?

No not yet oh! Not yet like a bird from the deep,
My good bark comes forth with a youths hopeful leap,
It is past, it is past, the wish farther to roam,
The anchor is cast and the pampas my home.

(El Monitor de la Campaña, June 1873).

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released October 6, 2023
Recorded in Córdoba, Argentina with the help of Fabrizio Risotto. Mixed and mastered by Trouble or Fortune.

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Trouble or Fortune Records Killarney, Ireland

Trouble or Fortune is where myself, Charlie O' Brien's, music and film projects are found.

Besides my own work and collaborations, Japanese alt. folk artist, Mari Mochizuki, is the first formal addition to label.

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