Lighthouse Women

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A special release for International Women's Day 2022. A broadside ballad by Victoria Bourne with lyrics from women at the Lighthouse Women's Aid.

www.mariamarten.com/ballads-for-maria
Lighthouse Women by Victoria Bourne is part of our Broadside Challenge.

Victoria - a performer, musician, and composer - from Bristol used words from across the project to create this haunting but hopeful track. Find out more about Victoria at www.victoriabourne.com

The Broadside Challenge

We have been touring the UK wih our production of The Ballad of Maria Marten. In developing the original production (then called Polstead) we worked with an incredible group of women who have all survived domestic abuse. Their insight helped the creative team, and especially Beth, understand Maria’s story, her journey. This year our writer Beth returned to work with two new group of women, one in Colchester with Next Chapter and one in Ipswich with Lighthouse.

The participants words reminded us that one of the reasons we know Maria’s story is through the folk song (The Suffolk Tragedy / The Murder of Maria Marten). That songs origins were as Broadside Ballad – sold on street corners by Ballad sellers who would often fit the words to a tune they already knew or made up on the spot.

So we set five contemporary singer songwriters a Broadside Challenge. We gave them the words you can read at our website mariamarten.com and asked them to set them to music, to create as it were new broadside ballads

Victoria's track is one of the results of that challenge.

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Broadside Ballad- Lighthouse Women by Victoria Bourne
Lyrics by the Lighthouse Women Aid

We first met on Sunday
My heart was a flutter
Daytime strangers, lovers by night

With just one look

The sun beat down on us
Who was to know that sun was to be
Your fist beating down, down on me

With just one word

You realise too late
Should have run a mile
All the signs were there
You just didn’t see

I’ve lost my youth and beauty
The frown on my forehead
The lines around my eyes
What a waste, What a cost

With just one look
With just one word

You’re no longer near
But I still feel you here
Your name gives me the chills
I want to run to the hills

With just one look

I am sorry however
That you won’t see me now
See the strong happy woman
Im flourishing into now

With just one word

I have come as far as I can go,
I just have to fight every day
It can be a lonely world
Lighthouse has shown me the way

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released March 8, 2022
Victoria Bourne - Composition and Music
Lyrics - Lighthouse Women's Aid

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Victoria Bourne Bristol, UK

Achingly beautiful harmonies’ The Wire Magazine

From Electroacoustic, to folk rock. Victoria writes her own music and is also a member of the folktronica band Hangover Square, United Isolation Ensemble, and collaborations with Walt Shaw and Jim Tetlow.

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