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Mam is, like many women, a multifaceted character, but we grew up knowing that she prizes her role as a mother above everything else. As children, we were never in any doubt about how loved we were, because she was always there. We ate breakfast together at the kitchen table, we chatted on the school run and we shared the day’s news over tea. She stood me on a chair to watch her cook when I was a toddler, she read to me daily, she carved me a Cinderella’s carriage neepie lantern and she made me anything I needed from whatever materials were lying around the house, including numerous wallpaper book covers. Her phone calls during university were as regular as clockwork, and now in adult life too she never skips a beat. I’m so very grateful for her many acts of simple, loving care.

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Turns out I owe you big time
For a lot of who I am
And so this is a thank you
For sticking with me, Mam

For early kitchen childcare
Watching mince and tatties cook
For a chorus of voices
In every Ladybird book

For making me a tutu
For a Cinderella neep
A knitting bag, a Fair Isle
And book covers by the heap

Your time was mine  
You gave your best
You were always there in my life
Your time was mine
You gave your best
And you were always there

For all-night taxi driving
Listening to my thundering scales
For endless tea and biscuits
Staying firmly on the rails

For the weekly Shetland Times
Aberdeen-bound in the mail
Mercy drops of twenty pounds
And oatcakes without fail

For driving me to Cambridge
Telling me I would be fine
For formal hall attendance
Talking small and drinking wine

For helping me to find digs
When I moved to the big smoke
For every nightly phone call
Every laugh and every joke

For flitting me so often
In a boat or car or van
For knowing my friends always
And for welcoming my man

So thanks, Mam, for your patience
I have tried it quite a lot
Despite protests I’m dead chuffed
That you were the Mam I got

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from Lasses Trust In Providence, track released December 10, 2018
Composition, vocals, fiddle: Claire White
Guitar: Robbie Leask

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Claire White Scotland, UK

Claire White is an award-winning Shetland singer-songwriter and fiddler. She learned music from Dr Tom Anderson and has been performing and teaching internationally for twenty-five years. She has previously played in Australia, New Zealand, the United Arab Emirates, the USA, Canada, Iceland, Norway, Sardinia, Turkey, Italy, Germany, Slovenia, Estonia, Poland, Ireland and the UK. ... more

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