I know I promised that I would get my new song posted soon. Well, this is not it. This is in fact a demo recorded in my campervan with Jen Rouse last Summer. But I offer it as a placeholder and promise to get the new tune recorded in demo form by the end of the coming weekend.
This tune is called 'Blackjack Davy' and is my idea of what the folk anti-hero who crops up in various traditional folk songs might be up to in the modern age.
I really love this song.
ReplyDeleteDo you have lyrics for this one?
ReplyDeleteBlackjack Davey, she came to me,
ReplyDeleteOn a crazy summer evening.
Taught me to become a drunkard and a gambler,
Leave my family.
She said,
'Leave your baby come out into the forest with me,
Drink all day we'll fall asleep with the dawn chorus,
and well make such music as only self destruction ever made,
and racked with pain we'll live in caves.'
CHORUS
And that day came to be an anniversary day,
To commemorate society's decay,
And as they lay there half awake in what she called cave they made the very first of their mistakes along the way.
When he said,
'Blackjack Davey you wouldn't understand,
This is the 21st century the forests are mapped out,
The land is crossed with footpaths, half civilised, half tamed,
And all the caves are caved in,
From where some kid went in and never came back out again.
CHORUS (plus)
And academia would say that its a folk motif,
The passion and the danger and the feeling that well all be washed away.
And there are continents you never knew existed,
And a hand of cards is only information,
And information can be turned into a form of light,
And broadcast via satellite across the wide blue ocean.
And Blackjack Davey, her work done, turned into light and dissipated in the night into another constellation.
CHORUS (plus, plus)
We will inevitably die and so we have to live today x3