1 January 2008
I'm Gonna Do It All
Words: Karine Polwart (Bay Songs Ltd)
Music: Karine Polwart (Bay Songs Ltd) & Steven Polwart (MCPS/PRS)
I'm gonna sail right out on the Atlantic
I'm gonna catch me a fish that's bigger than gigantic
I'm gonna cook up a fine fish tea
It will be like some kind of Galilee
I'm gonna do it all some day
CHORUS
I'm gonna do it all some day
I'm gonna do it all some day
You may not believe a word I say
But I tell you I'm gonna do it all some day
I'm gonna climb way over that old mountain
I'm gonna shout in a place where no-one hears me shouting
I'm gonna swear so loud
I'll strip the silver lining from a cloud
I'm gonna do it all some day
I'm gonna fly in a silver winged space rocket
I'm gonna pick out the stars and put them in my pocket
I'm gonna bring those stars back down
So I can spread celestial light around
I'm gonna do it all some day
Listen to an excerpt of I'm Gonna Do It All
I went on a bit of a folk kick in 2007. I can't remember exactly what started it. It might have been Seth Lakeman, but after a bit of clicking around and random downloading from Napster, I happened across the work of Karine Polwart, and downloaded the album Scribbled in Chalk.
It's not your ordinary folk album, with songs about human trafficking and a haunting ballad which commemorates Scots missionary Jane Haining, who died in Auschwitz with many of the children from the Jewish orphanage she ran in Budapest in the 1930s.
It's not all misery either. Even the songs about difficult subjects are ultimately uplifting, and it's one of the albums I listened to most in 2007. In fact, according to my last.fm profile, she's the artist I listened to most, by quite a way.
Apparently I'm Gonna Do It All has become a bit of an anthem in Scotland, with Cockburnspath Primary School in Berwickshire making it their school anthem. They're not the only school either - Castlefield Primary School, in my home town has also made it their anthem, with the schoolkids amending it to suit their ambitions, and even going as far as to record it.
For me though, it's been my quiet anthem over the latter half of 2007, reminding me, when things got tough, that I do have ambitions, and that no matter how difficult things get, or how impossible they seem, anything is possible if you're prepared to work hard enough for it.
I've got plans, and I've got a new year stretching ahead of me in which to give it my best shot, and you know what?
I really am gonna do it all, some day.
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