August In December

August In December, 3:43 (String Band – banjo, uke, fiddle etc. - Writers: Vicky Harris / Paul Carne)

Cue-Tips: Intro: 5 secs; Ending: 24 secs, hums, slow fade

Radio Themes: (Love for) Newborns/babies; Grandparents /grandchildren; Winter/Christmas; The important things in life

Background: for Vicky’s first grandchild, August Emerson Shapiro, to whom she dedicates the album. The ‘wooden hill’ is from an old British phrase ‘up the wooden hill to Bedfordshire’ – upstairs to bed, in other words. (Grandpa Paul is Welsh, and his Dad used to use it all the time).