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Bobo and the cattle
02:42
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Bobo and the cattle
Don’t let’s go to the dogs tonight
Though the chances are high and there’s signs that we might
Don’t let’s go to the dogs tonight
There’s work to be done and two makes it light
We take the horses and ride on the sand
The cattle are lost and they must be found
They’ll keep a herd but they’ve had years to roam
You know the dogs are thirsty and we should go home
We didn’t plan to drink today
But the path narrows out and I’m starting to sway
I said “I’ll wait here for you” …and now I’m alone
The sun is going and our dogs have gone.
Don’t let’s go to the dogs tonight
Though I can hear them howling and I think that I might
Don’t let’s go to the dogs tonight
Though I can hear them howling and I think that I might
You came back just in time
With the dogs and the horses and a cattle line
These days of sweat make the land sown
But that’s just what makes this my home
And that’s what makes this my home
Don’t let’s go to the dogs tonight
We’ve made it home and now it’s night
Don’t let’s go to the dogs tonight
I can hear them howling but we’re alright
Don’t let’s go to the dogs tonight
We got whisky here in the starlight
Don’t let’s go to the dogs tonight
We got whisky here in the starlight
We got whisky here in the starlight
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2. |
Where did we begin?
05:05
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Where did we begin?
Mountains turn from pink to slate
Outlaw nation, rebel state
Who will remember if the schools won’t write it down
How many die here? As the shots don’t make a sound
Walking round in skin
Where did we begin
Walking round in circles
Don’t blame it on gin
Coloured by the history books
We are proud and off the hooks
Who will remember if the schools have closed their doors
We can do no wrong here, though we break their foreign shores
Aahhh x3
Walking round in skin
Where did we begin
Walking round in circles
Don’t blame it on gin
Mountains turn from pink to slate
Outlaw nation rebel state
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The Mariner’s first smile
What, have I been waiting for?
The first, smile I ever saw
Then I, went to sea
With your, smile in me
Go, where the sail’s go
But masts come down, when it really blows
And all the things, that we horde
Are des,tined overboard
Off you go to sea
I hope you’ll think of me
Put on my dancing shoes
And I might think of you
But I just might
Sing my songs at night
Dance the floors and find
Someone new
So I came back to shore
To be with you evermore
I’ve been married to the sea
And you to he
Off you go to sea
I hope you’ll think of me
Put on my dancing shoes
And I might think of you
But I just might
Sing my songs at night
Dance the floors and find
Someone new
Then in the door
The first smile that I ever saw
You looked at me
And I at thee
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4. |
Gold and black
03:16
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Gold and Black
Born to a cot in Bermondsey
Sailors song for a bedtime story
Reborn in a tigers mouth
Dragged into a brand new land
The Sailors song
Pumping my blood from before I was born
And the big black sea,
Filled, my dreams
Finger tips, shiny black, wrinkled bricks
Rutted horse shit, jagged lanes, bent elbows,
crooked knees streets, heavy smells
Crossed you as you passed
Weighing your senses down
Oh and above all this rang the sound
Of voices wild and dark
Melodies in flight, tiptoeing,
Above the sight of us
And I imagine myself far away
Somewhere hot and strange
Where the cats are painted gold and black
And I am not afraid
Where the cats are painted gold and black
And I am not afraid
And above all this rang the sound
Of voices wild and dark
And it is here, that my future starts
And is to be with the crimson beasts
And the wings that beat
Blood red as the black sea fills my head
And the sailors song pumping my blood
From before I was born
And the black sea, has seen and soaked through me
Oh and above all this rang the sound
Of voices wild and dark
Melodies in flight, tiptoeing,
Above the sight of us
And I imagine myself far away
Somewhere hot and strange
Where the cats are painted gold and black
And I am not afraid
Where the cats are painted gold and black
And I am not afraid
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How many bones to build a man?
(The Downfall of Les Innocents)
Dig the land to make the man in old Versailles, but I will never clear a thing if I were to fall in.
Clear the graves to make a way, and all who work will be repaid with money left for purpose by the king.
We take the bodies from the soil, before the air begins to spoil, the future will come here in the end
This city has no place for bones, beside the markets, whores and homes, it’s by the church that we have piled them.
Downfall at Les Innocents
Decay and wretched stench
But the love and sweet incense
Cleanse the innocent
Set the fire by the walls, and leave the heat to take the souls, where men’s hammers can’t the flames can.
There is light along the aisles, and men are running for the sun is coming in everywhere I stand.
So I walk in to Versailles, for my year’s money and I, walk against the crowds that come
As they pass I have no doubt, I know more than most about, how, many bones to build a man.
How many bones, to build a man?
Downfall at Les Innocents
Decay and wretched stench
But the love and sweet incense
Cleanse the innocent
Downfall at Les Innocents
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6. |
The Engineer's Paris
06:08
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The Engineer’s Paris
Exhausted Earth
Shadowed by an empty church
Lit through the October light
A deathly quiet
Do do do – da da da da
An Auburn Girl
Gently passes through her world
Pressing on the stiffened grass
A well trodden path
But he is led in a merry dance
Through the streets of merry France
A French Parisian
His New acquaintance
And he finds himself a suit to suit the trend
And he finds himself a suit to suit the trend
Deep the men
They dig the earth
Hard and steady as they work
Heavy air and heavy ground
Moving on, the future is, (fast)
The only sound
Immortal
As it fills the ground
And he is led in a merry dance
Through the streets of merry France
A French Parisian
His New acquaintance
And he finds himself a suit to suit the trend
And he finds himself a suit to suit the trend
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7. |
Heart in hand
02:57
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HEART IN HAND
As I stand still
Like the frozen sea
Beneath my feet
I find myself
Thick in thought
Like the frozen floor
Glassy eyes
As I try
To see
As the fear
Stacks up,
In front of me
As the fear
Stacks up,
In front of me
And the fire in my heart
Well it was almost out
A slow death
But the beauty and the light
And the stillness of the night
And the dark air
Becomes so loud
A roaring sound
But the beauty and the light
And the stillness of the night
Comes in time
And the layers of the ice
A kaliederscope so bright
In my mind
And alone I start to understand
And alone I stand heart in hand
And alone I understand
And alone I stand heart in hand
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8. |
Steady on
03:52
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STEADY ON
Dark
Shiver
Frozen
Dead Still
Days
Years
Trapped
Fear
Steady on, lost your track, how will you make it back?
Listen hard, nothing there, how did you lose your bearings,
As the snow clings, the wind sings.
Can’t
Shiver
Longing
Over
Steady on, lost your track, how will you make it back?
Listen hard, nothing there, how did you lose your bearings,
As the snow clings, the wind sings.
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The Bookshop Band Bath, UK
The Bookshop Band write songs inspired by books and play them in bookshops. They started as a collaboration between a group of musicians in Bath and their local independent bookshop, Mr B's Emporium. Now they are about to go on tour, sponsored by Vintage Books and Independent Booksellers Week, around other bookshops and lit fests. Catch them if you can. Details at www.thebookshopband.co.uk ... more
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