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A solo fast clawpicking environmental song about the rush hour written in Coventry 1970 and was featured on Songs from the Coventry Underground - Gnome label 2007
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Peak #73
Peak in subgenre #26
Author
Trev Teasdel
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Trev Teasdel
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February 23, 2012
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MP3 2.8 MB, 128 kbps, 3:01
Story behind the song
The lyrics were put together from a kind of moody Blues - Day in the Life of concept album which I was writing for a Coventry band at the time. The project didn't come off but I recycled some of the lyrics for this song using an initial short poem Just before dawn to start it off. The lyrics were written at GEC Stoke Coventry in 1970 and later I set it to music while trying to learn Anji by Bert Jansch.
Lyrics
Just Before Dawn by Trev Teasdel Breeze blowing through the trees, Squirrels squatting on their knees Breeze blowing through the trees, Squirrels squatting on their knees Trying not to freeze In amongst the trees Searching for acorns Just before dawn - Just before Dawn Just before Dawn - Just before dawn And the wind blows free of the ripples of the city Just before dawn, just before dawn Just before dawn, just before dawn. Then silence vomits an almighty roar A thousand vehicles and maybe more Stampede the main arterial lanes To face their daily stresses and strains and engines sing to morning faces bustling off to their work places. Oh Oh City light - Oh oh City light. Refresh your lungs in the morning smog Find a patch of grass to walk your dog Wander by in an urban dream 'long the banks of a traffic stream Black birds nesting in the branches of the local factories. Oh oh City light - oh oh City light Listen to cockcrow in the clock tower announcing the arrival of another rush hour - (another rush hour, another rush hour.) Oh oh City light - Oh oh city light.
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