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The Ballad of St Edmund ft The Penland Phezants

from All The Saints by Bardonthewire

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The ballad gets a full-folk realisation by the Penland Phezants here, processing through All Saints Fring to regale a full house with the exploits of Hereward the Saxon. The Hon Curate's introduction is typical of the church and captures the warmth of the welcome. The 'centurion' he turns to indicate is semi-visible on the East window pictured on the track art here and on the album's cover.

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Red as Christ's blood,
White as chivalry
But shouldn't our Saint
Be an Angle like me?

You can shoot me with arrows
And chop off my head
But the Christ within me
Will never be dead.

You can shoot me with arrows
And chop off my head
But the Christ within me
Will never be dead.

In a thick wood my people
Lose one another
"Where are you? And where's
The head of our Martyr?"

You can shoot me with arrows
And chop off my head
But the Christ within me
Will never be dead.

"Hic hic, over here!"
My head wolf-cries,
Holy spirit of England
That never dies.

Between a wolf's paws
They find, in wonder
My head that to body
Returns un-sundered.

You can shoot me with arrows
And chop off my head
But the Christ within me
Will never be dead.

credits

from All The Saints, released May 1, 2020
Andy Wall - guitar, lead vocal
Vanessa Wood-Davies - harmony vocal
Melanie Calway - harmony vocal
Gareth Calway - drum, backing vocal.

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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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