Name: A Walk Across the Rooftops
Duration: P00H03M27S
Description: There’s a glorious moment between receiving your final exam results and graduation. I remember those weeks as the sunniest, most carefree I have ever spent in Glasgow. Everytime I hear this Blue Nile song I’m reminded of days hanging out between the City Centre and the West End, barbecues, carry outs and late night sing-songs in tenement flats.

A Walk Across the Rooftops

from Glasgow by Findlay Napier

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There’s a glorious moment between receiving your final exam results and graduation. I remember those weeks as the sunniest, most carefree I have ever spent in Glasgow. Everytime I hear this Blue Nile song I’m reminded of days hanging out between the City Centre and the West End, barbecues, carry outs and late night sing-songs in tenement flats.

lyrics

A Walk Across the Rooftops Paul Buchanan & Robert Bell

I walk across the rooftops
I follow a broken thread
Of white rags falling slowly down
Flags caught on the fences

I walk across the rooftops
The jangle of St Stephen's bells
The telephones that ring all night
Incommunicado

The traffic lights are changing
The black and white horizon
I leave the quiet redstone
And walk across the rooftops

I walk across the rooftops
On graduation day
To look for independence,
Yeah!

The lights are always changing
The black and white horizon
I leave the redstone building
And walk across the rooftops

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from Glasgow, released October 13, 2017
Findlay Napier- Guitar and Vocal

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Findlay Napier Glasgow, UK

One of Scotland's finest songwriters. In 2021 he was nominated for Musician of the Year at the Scot’s Trad Music Awards and in 2018 he was the first solo act to be nominated for Live Act of the Year. Described as Micheal Marra meets Elvis Costello, a Caledonian Loudon Wainwright or a Scottish James Taylor this master storyteller's songs are full of earthy humour, hopeless love and biting satire. ... more

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Apr 21

Live at Sam's

Sheffield, UK
Apr 22

Green Note

Camden, UK
Apr 23

Temperance

Leamington Spa, UK
Apr 24

Ukrainian Community Centre

Edinburgh, UK

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