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A few days before Christmas 2020, Alex Auldsmith and his flatmates all tested positive for Coronavirus. This meant they spent the festive period all bottled up in their flat together. In a state of sentimental delirium Alex wrote these two songs in quick succession. A duo of songs soaked in mulled wine; looking bleary eyed at family photographs and sang to a family made of friends.
Red, Green and Gold is unashamedly a Christmas song, written without irony but with a keen sense of the somewhat questionable canon that it belongs to. Sister Sarah Saint of the Small is inspired by Alex’s sister and the amazing stories she brings back from her shifts working for the SSPCA. The songs profits will go to the SSPCA. Both songs were recorded by Alex at New Teeth HQ.

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Sister Sarah saint of the small
And of the big but often lost
Or the beached upon the barren rocks.
She’ll pull you out between the walls
Where you were stuck despite your claws,
Driving slyly through the night she goes.

She won’t need no compass to locate you.
She’s the headlights on the way.
As I said she’s the patron saint who saves the day.

There’s no water cold enough
That she won’t go diving in.
There’s no soul too small for saving.

Saint Sarah sister to us all.
She’ll drink until you hit the floor.
She wont sleep until she’s had it all.
Not many more were made like this.
She’s not a girl to contradict.
She set the mould no counterfeit.

Oh and she wont need no compass to locate you.
She’s the headlights on the way.
As I said she’s the patron saint of those who save the day.
She will be the measure of us all
And she will follow protocol, most of the time
Oh but most of all she’s a saint.

There’s no water cold enough
That she won’t go diving in.
There’s no soul too small for saving
No.
There’s no hour that’s too late
To keep her from driving out
To find the ones who are lost.

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from Red Green & Gold // Sister Sarah Saint of the Small, released December 13, 2021
Songs by Alex Auldsmith
Bass : Ruairidh Morrison
Keys : Michael Davidson
Strings : Peter Menzies
Everything else : Alex Auldsmith
Recorded by Alex Auldsmith @ New Teeth Leith HQ
Mixed and Mastered by Liam Narrie
Cover Photo : Mary Auldsmith
Cover layout : Alex Auldsmith

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