Laying our Ancestors back out in the
Sun
Some inspiration from the music of
Johnny Flynn and Robert Macfarlane
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A
musical endnote. |
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 the perfect soundtrack
to our own endeavour of genealogical and historical research.
Our
genealogical journey has undercovered clues to who we are, and where we
were, and why we will. We dig for those whose stories lie with buried
paths and futures won.
The Farndale
Story is intended to help us to inherit the knowledge of our rich
ancestry. You can use this ancestral history to continue to dig for us as we
have done.
The genealogy
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)