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An alternative version of an unlikely rap tracks on the Penland Phezants' album 'Songs for Skirting Heresy.' I would have to corkscrew my throat to do it live the other way.

The subject is the visionary Bishop's Lynn wife, mother, author, pilgrim and visionary Margery Kempe of Lynn, whose view of pilgrimage was not shared by her Butlins-holiday-camp fellow pilgrims.


thepenlandphezants.bandcamp.com/album/songs-for-skirting-heresy-the-life-and-times-of-margery-kempe

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Some would wish her in the harbour,
In her floods of weeping sunk,
Some would say it was an illness
Or the ravings of a drunk.

Some say they are un-Ladylike,
Un-Saintly and untrue,
Some curse her tears with oaths so lewd
They turn her white robes blue.

Some would shake her very gently
By the roaring seething throat,
Some would wish her on the ocean
In a bottomless boat.

Some carp that she's a Holy Joe,
"Eats no meat and drinks no wine,
Makes an altar of high table
And keeps crying all the time!"

Some say "Marge for the love of Christ,
No ass could bear your folly!"
Her confessor chides "chill out or get!
It's a pilgrimage, a Jolly!"

Some would shake her very gently
By the roaring seething throat,
Some would wish her on the ocean
In a bottomless boat.

credits

from Bad King John & The Word on the Street (album), released July 23, 2017
Gaz - voice, cube amp, drum
Picture of me in my 'down with the kids' bad-asos leather jacket by Maz.

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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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