Laying our Ancestors back out in the Sun

Some inspiration from the music of Johnny Flynn and Robert Macfarlane

 

 

 

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Coins for the Eyes was composed by Johnny Flynn and Robert Macfarlane and introduces the BBC Series Digging for Britain. Whilst the lyrics inspire archaeologists, they are also a suitable soundtrack to our own endeavour of genealogical and historical research.

As we undercover clues to who we are, and where we were, and why we will, and inherit the knowledge of past lives, we also dig for those whose stories lie with buried paths and futures won. You can use the Farndale Story to continue to dig for us as we have done.

The Farndale Story aims to preserve the richness of our ancestors lives, who coursed the nation’s path over generations, and avoid these stories being lost to time. The Farndale story recovers the memory of thousands of real people who lived inspiring lives of hard work, adventure, trials and fun.

The website aims to recover the lives of our ancestors and put their stories back out in the sun, or in the lyrics of the song, to lay the dead out in the sun and by doing that, lay our own stories back out in the sun.

 

And so a clue to who we are

And where we were, and why we will

Inheritors of knowledge now

And ancestors to those who still might

Dig for those whose stories lie

With buried paths and futures won

And dig for us as we have done

To lay the dead out in the sun

To lay us dead out in the sun

Coins for the Eyes, Johnny Flynn and Robert Macfarlane

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