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Tide Take Him

by Various Guises

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1.
Lay him on the deck, and rock him gently Early in the morning Send him up the rigging for to catch an angel Early in the morning What shall we do with our drunken sailor Early in the morning Give him a dose of salt and water Early in the morning Send him down below and the devil with him Early in the morning Scrape the hair off his chest with a hoop iron razor Early in the morning What shall we do with our drunken sailor Early in the morning Keel haul him in the deep, dark water Early in the morning Wrap him in a sail and let the tide take him Home.
2.
Green 02:56
Sweet young man, you are so green Like a rocky road in early spring The grass grows fast between your toes And where you step, you do not know Fine old fellow, you've grown so grey Time tinkers and takes away Leaves you with all you have seen And fullbright eyes untarnished green Wild young woman you are so green Carving your course in the early spring The waters turn under your toes And where you step, you do not know Wise old woman you've grown so grey Time moulds and erodes the clay And leaves you with all you've been through And fullbright eyes untarnished blue
3.
Willow 03:20
Under a willow tree My old mistake and me Take turns walking out on the water Up on the tallest branch I see him take my hand Swing me out into space And close his eyes before I land Under a yellow sky My youngest child and I Go gather jewels in the garden We plant them in the ground A fatal six feet down But before we turn around They've grown in stone and we're surrounded Under a willow tree My old mister and me Take turns walking out on the water Up on the tallest branch I see him take my hand Swing him out into space And close my eyes before he lands
4.
As if, all that we were Were only words That travel round and round In one another's mouths Never to be born from the word into the world Into the sound and the fury Never to be born into the land of blood and bone Into the sound and the fury Write yourself a ledger of all that you've been and done Sew of it a shift to be worn outdoors in lieu of conversation As if, all that we were Were only words That travel round and round In one another's mouths Never to be born from the word into the world Into the sound and the fury Never to be born into the land of blood and bone Into the sound and the fury Count up all the hours spent counting the hours Of telling and re-telling of our soul stories Stories that we need for the telling and re-telling and that we begin to believe As if, all that we were Were only words That travel round and round In one another's mouths Never to be born from the word into the world Into the sound and the fury Never to be born into the land of blood and bone Into the sound and the fury
5.
To meet Mad Tom at Bedlam Ten thousand miles I travelled Mad Maudlin goes on dirty toes To save her shoes from gravel It's well that you sing bonny boys Bonny mad boys Bedlam boys are bonny For they all go bare and they live on the air And they want no drink nor money Went down to Satan's Kitchen For to break my fast one morning And there I got souls, piping hot All on the spit a-turning It's well that you sing... Them spirits hot as lightning Did on the journey guide me And the sun did shake and the pale moon quake Wherever they did spy me It's well that you sing... My staff has murdered giants My pack a long knife carries For to slice mince pies from children's thighs For which to feed the fairies It's well that you sing... Tonight I go a-murdering The man in the moon to a powder His dog I'll shake and his neck I'll break And I'll howl a wee bit louder To meet Mad Tom at Bedlam Ten thousand miles I travelled Mad Maudlin goes on dirty toes To save her shoes from gravel It's well that you sing bonny boys Bonny mad boys Bedlam boys are bonny For they all go bare and they live on the air And they want no drink nor money

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released November 25, 2016

Various Guises: Blanche Ellis & Maya McCourt
featuring
Dana Immanuel (voice, tracks 1 & 5)
Tom Hyatt (piano, track 2, Satan's Kitchen, track 5)

Recorded and produced by Tom Hyatt
Mastered by Steve Watson

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Various Guises London, UK

Formed in the embers of a late-night bonfire, Various Guises takes your expectations of a female folk duo, rocks them in the cradle, and then holds them upside down until the blood rushes to your ears. Together Blanche Ellis & Maya McCourt weave a dark and dreamy aesthetic that has been called ‘enigmatic, timeless folk’. ... more

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