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  • The Complete Works (Year 1)
    Compact Disc (CD) + Digital Album

    This 2nd edition of our boxset contains all four of The Bookshop Band's CD albums. All the CDs are individually numbered and packaged in a bespoke letterpress-printed case. The box also contains our very own newspaper - The Bookshop Band Chronicles.

    All are bound together in a lovely box.

    Includes unlimited streaming of The Complete Works (Year One) - 2nd Edition via the free Bandcamp app, plus high-quality download in MP3, FLAC and more.

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  • Streaming + Download

    Includes unlimited streaming via the free Bandcamp app, plus high-quality download in MP3, FLAC and more.
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      £1 GBP

     

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This song is based on the novel Pure, by Andrew Miller. Our live performance at Mr B's can be seen here: vimeo.com/35271600

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How many bones to build a man?
(The Downfall of Les Innocents)

Dig the land to make the man in old Versailles, but I will never clear a thing if I were to fall in.
Clear the graves to make a way, and all who work will be repaid with money left for purpose by the king.

We take the bodies from the soil, before the air begins to spoil, the future will come here in the end
This city has no place for bones, beside the markets, whores and homes, it’s by the church that we have piled them.

Downfall at Les Innocents
Decay and wretched stench
But the love and sweet incense
Cleanse the innocent

Set the fire by the walls, and leave the heat to take the souls, where men’s hammers can’t the flames can.
There is light along the aisles, and men are running for the sun is coming in everywhere I stand.

So I walk in to Versailles, for my year’s money and I, walk against the crowds that come
As they pass I have no doubt, I know more than most about, how, many bones to build a man.
How many bones, to build a man?

Downfall at Les Innocents
Decay and wretched stench
But the love and sweet incense
Cleanse the innocent
Downfall at Les Innocents

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from The Complete Works (Year One) - 2nd Edition, released June 22, 2013

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The Bookshop Band Bath, UK

The Bookshop Band write songs inspired by books and play them in bookshops. They started as a collaboration between a group of musicians in Bath and their local independent bookshop, Mr B's Emporium. Now they are about to go on tour, sponsored by Vintage Books and Independent Booksellers Week, around other bookshops and lit fests. Catch them if you can. Details at www.thebookshopband.co.uk ... more

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