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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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Probably the most well know mythological being in Brazil is Saci Pererê. When anything goes wrong, people would blame Saci. If you cant find your keys, it’s because Saci has hidden them, if you step on a pin, it’s because Saci has placed it there. An incorrigible prankster, Saci will not cause major harm, but there is no ‘little’ harm that he won't do. You can spot Saci easily as he has one leg, wears a red cap, smokes a pipe and travels around in a dust devil. We took as our inspiration all the collective worst moments from all the dates we have ever been on. It was all Saci’s fault, obviously.

This song was written for when James Scudamore came into Mr B's Emporium of Reading Delights to talk about his book Heliopolis on BRAZIL night.

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Open my eyes, the sun was high and bright, blue skies.
I should’ve been up at least three hours ago. Clock broke, no way to tell the time,
New socks to make me feel alright. I ran to the bus only to see it fly by.
How could the day get any worse?
As I stand by the roadside, I walk home, I get in the car,
Wouldn’t start, put the choke on, cover my neighbour in the smoke from...
Only to see the garden gate wide open, and the hutch door high,
As the floor is torn up by hens running loose in the street,
As the dust twists and writhes, up to the sky.

Oh Saci Pererê, Oh Saci! Oh Saci Pererê, Oh Saci!

Finally got into town, I was late, you were soaked. You had to wait in the rain.
We rushed to the play I had tickets for, too late, again.
Stopped to warm up, got some coffee and cake,
As I went to pay my coins fell everywhere, I swear we didn’t find them all.
It’s not how I pictured us on the floor, on our hands and knees,
Searching for pennies that we couldn’t see. You had to pay, oh what a day!

Oh Saci Pererê, Oh Saci! Oh Saci Pererê, Oh Saci!

You caught your train, I drove home in the rain.
Put my hand in my pocket for my house keys,
Found a piece of paper had been slipped inside.
I couldn’t believe, after such a bad day, you’d left a note, what will it say?
Oh but the ink had run, your note was gone.

Oh Saci Pererê, Oh Saci! Oh Saci Pererê, Oh Saci!

credits

from The Complete Works (Year One) - 2nd Edition, released June 22, 2013
Written and performed by The Bookshop Band
Mixed by Marco Migliari

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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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