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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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This song was inspired by Pure, a novel by Andrew Miller.
See our performance here: vimeo.com/34459747

lyrics

The Engineer’s Paris

Exhausted Earth
Shadowed by an empty church
Lit through the October light
A deathly quiet

Do do do – da da da da

An Auburn Girl
Gently passes through her world
Pressing on the stiffened grass
A well trodden path

But he is led in a merry dance
Through the streets of merry France
A French Parisian
His New acquaintance
And he finds himself a suit to suit the trend
And he finds himself a suit to suit the trend

Deep the men
They dig the earth
Hard and steady as they work
Heavy air and heavy ground

Moving on, the future is, (fast)
The only sound
Immortal
As it fills the ground

And he is led in a merry dance
Through the streets of merry France
A French Parisian
His New acquaintance
And he finds himself a suit to suit the trend
And he finds himself a suit to suit the trend

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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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