Tack Together
Jennie Scammell
"During one of the Covid lockdowns, spent isolating in rural Lincolnshire, I wrote the lyrics for Tack Together. While society stalled and my yearning for social interactions intensified, nature’s social union remained unchanged in all its murmurations, pollinations, and constellations. All those things that we (I) missed about our lives as social beings was reflected back in the natural world - a world that the pandemic forced us all to reconnect with."
Let me see the scattered crowds,
Tack together,
Winging where their fellowship flies.
Let me feel the warm embraces:
Radiant reach,
That smiles reflect and shadows sweep.
Let me see the go-betweens,
Buzz and flit,
From sweet inviting room to room.
Let me see the handsome stranger
Step inside
The Winter circle, take their turn.
Let me hear the conversations
Unmuted,
Feathered friends will shoot the breeze.
Let me see the glittering guests
Shine brightly
In their celestial cliques.
Let me see the merry dancers,
Light-footed,
Skirts of rustling yellow-green silk.
Let me see the scattered crowds,
Tack together,
Winging where their fellowship flies.
Let me feel the warm embraces:
Radiant reach,
That smiles reflect and shadows sweep.
Let me see the go-betweens,
Buzz and flit,
From sweet inviting room to room.
Let me see the handsome stranger
Step inside
The Winter circle, take their turn.
Let me hear the conversations
Unmuted,
Feathered friends will shoot the breeze.
Let me see the glittering guests
Shine brightly
In their celestial cliques.
Let me see the merry dancers,
Light-footed,
Skirts of rustling yellow-green silk.

Jennie, who is also our filmmaker on this project, is a long-standing member of Madrigirls, having joined while studying for a doctorate in English at the University of Glasgow. She is a BAFTA-Scotland-nominated documentary filmmaker pursuing her passion for intimate, observational, human-interest films. As a proud member of Madrigirls for almost two decades, she was delighted to be commissioned to make these three films, and to have the opportunity to showcase the creativity and camaraderie on which she and many others have thrived.
If you'd like to contact Jennie DM her on Insta @vitalspark or drop us a line via the Contact page and we'll put you in touch.