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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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    Includes unlimited streaming via the free Bandcamp app, plus high-quality download in MP3, FLAC and more.
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A man remarries and his new jealous wife makes him chose between his daughter and her. With no choice, the man takes his daughter out into the frosty forest to perish. In the night an old man passes through and spies the young girl, shivering and on the edge of death. When he asks her if she is cold, the girl, not wanting to trouble the old man with her burdens, replies she is warm and fine. The old man is touched by her stoic nature and rewards her with a fur coat to keep warm and silver and gold aplenty. When the father eventually returns he is amazed to find his daughter safe, well and with newfound wealth. Upon returning home, the stepmother is equally amazed, yet jealous of the riches the girl has received. Now, the stepmother had a daughter of her own, whom she then sends out to the same spot, deep into the forest, in the hope of receiving the same bounty. Unfortunately for the girl, she was of a different nature, and when the old man passed by, she complained bitterly to him about the cold. The old man was offended by the second girl and froze her in an icy grave, for he was in fact Old Man Winter (Morozko).

lyrics

Child destined to an icy fate
Brave faced and proud
Stoic little girl now
Tell me are you warm
Tell me are you warm
On this winter floor

And the, child only knows to smile
And the, old man replied to her

And he cloaked her in winter fur
He clothed her in silver
And placed her, on a stool
Keeping her from the winter floor

Child with a jealous soul
Is placed in turn, on the winter floor
In a cold hope, of riches to return

And, Old Man Winter comes tell me
Child are you warm but
Child only knows to frown and
Cry and the old man replies

There’s no winter Fur
And there’s no silver
And there’s only, the icy ground
Keeping her, in winters arms.

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