Songs of the Camino

By G McDougall

Songs of the Camino de Santiago, principally the lyrics.
Since the Camino's revival in the 1990s, here are new songs written on the Camino.

• Language: English
• Publisher: G McDougall
• Release date: Oct 11, 2020
• ISBN: 9781005452186

G McDougall

The Author was winner of the Art-In-Unusual-Places Grant (2022), a Feature Poet at the Sydney Writers Festival (2018), Balmain Institute founder and President (2007-14), and winner, Ros Spenser Short Story Prize with Patting The Dog (2017). He is author of over thirty books, including six novels, fourteen poetry, travel and short stories, and numerous photo books. Founder of Pamela Press, he is published in international magazines, with photos exhibited in eleven countries.The Author is the Camino de Santiago's most prolific author with ten eBooks and several paperbacks. He has extensive travel and teaching experience, and won Australian ecotourism, community project and literary prizes and grants. He co-created an Official NSW Bicentennial Project, the 250 km 'Great North Walk'. After many years managing Great Australian Walks, he refocused on photography, painting and storytelling, with seven novels.'Belonging' is a fictional-biography of a 'black doctor' in colonial Australia. 'Starts With C' is a murder mystery where we don't who is the murder, who has been murdered, and who's telling the story. The third novel is the acclaimed 'Knowing Simone' set in Victor Hugo's France. 'Blacksmith and Canon' is volume one of the series '1503'. Inheritance is the second volume, with volumes 3 and 4 due in 2025. In between, he wrote, Sea Voices, inspired by a WW2 event in the Pacific.Recent Awards include; Winner, Art-in-Usually-Places Grant, 2022, Wollongong City; Winner, Peter Cowan Short Story Prize, with 'Patting the Dog', Highly Commended, Peter Cowan Short Story Prize; Second, Peter Cowan Poetry Prize, and Feature Poet in the Sydney Writers festival. Included in numerous poetry and short story anthologies, Garry was Balmain Institute's president for seven years, a member of 'That Authors Collective' and 'Diverse' poetry group. He lives south of Sydney in the great and beautiful Illawarra.

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Songs of the Camino de Santiago ©

The Lyrics

Copyright 2020. All Rights Reserved.

First Press, Australia

Smashwords Edition, 2020

ISBN: 9781005452186

G McDougall ©

Cover design: G McDougall

Table of Contents

Introduction by G McDougall (editor)

The Lyrics and Sources

Songwriter: G McDougall

Standing Still (0. 261)

By An Albergue (263)

At The Counter (265)

Stones Wait (269)

Fuego Highway (279)

Building (Palas) (300)

Shadowland (303)

Nogaro (105)

J’ai (l’Energy)

Vine Time (448)

Songwriter: Craig Smillie

Bread and Wine

Songwriter: Dermot Breen

It’s a Long Way to …

Musical Sources

Other Books by the Author

Introduction to the Lyrics

by Garry McDougall, editor

Songs require lyrics as well as music. Though one might come before the other, they come as a package. So much of that task is beyond this book’s scope. Here are the lyrics to Camino songs. Only the lyrics. Their tunes are usually found on YouTube or elsewhere, but are a moveable feast where others might have a role.

Their inspiration is the Camino de Santiago, the 1200 year-old pilgrimage path ending at Santiago de Compostella.

No doubt there have been numerous songs written about it over that long time period, but here we have included only recently composed songs. There is no starting date, but let’s say, any songs inspired by the Camino since it’s revival in the 1990s.

We begin with my own songs, some nine or