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This is the coda of the previous symphony on a separate track for ease of separate listening.

A modern nursery rhyme that had its eponymous child jigging, percussion-ing, pointing and hand-upping on its first hearing. Best interactive audience I ever had. I thought it might be useful as toddler support for parents and in loco parents.

Nursery rhymes are an odd mixture of innocence and sinister - cheerful rhymes about plague, death, murder and national scandal shared with our fascinated young ones. Their true meanings are often as unexpected as they are unsuspected. It's a great tradition. Though it seems counter-intuitive, it may be the instinctive way we arm our little ones for all the darkness and horror of the world in a safe and protective setting. "There's a shark in the hole at the bottom of the sea " etc etc.

Let me claim the poet's privilege of offering the first (though by no means definitive) interpretation of Isla's Song. So much of the education I've experienced bit off and graded the fingers that would (twinkle twinkle little) star the dark. If you want a society of sharks, that's a great system. If you want to save the 'comprehensively/full of ability' whale, not so much. Hands up if you prefer to see those fingers reaching for the sky and starring the dark? (Not to mention rippling over those guitar strings and drum skins).

This catchy little number is the coda from the final movement of Symphony Number One in Coal Minor bardonthewire.bandcamp.com/track/symphony-no-1-in-coal-minor-finaleo
on this recent release
bardonthewire.bandcamp.com/album/it-all-comes-out-in-the-wash-album

lyrics

We're comprehensively
Full of ability
And it breaks my heart
Why they must bite off
And grade the fingers
That would star the dark.
Save the whale.
Kill the shark.

Look at the sky, child.
That's Sirius, the Dog.
Orion, the Hunter.
There's the Plough.
That's how,
According to our lights,
We know.

Now reach.

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from 'Hiraeth' - Symphony Number 1 in Coal Minor, track released November 27, 2019
Composed Calway/Chappell
Vocals, voice, percussion - Bardonthewire
Guitar - LC.

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Performance poetry with a library card (voice & drum, folk ballads, ghazals, sonnets, beat poems, sound poems, raps) much of it happening 'on the street' or jostling to be heard in the tavern. Researched stories of folk heroes and real folk. History for you. Bardic poetry striving (as all arts do) for the condition of music (from punk though rap to to prog). Visionary lit. for your average Blake. ... more

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