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Vasilisa the Beautiful

from Travels from your armchair by The Bookshop Band

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    'Travels from your armchair' is the first album by The Bookshop Band. It contains all the songs written for Season One of the author events at Mr Bs Emporium of Reading Delights. The songs were all inspired by folk tales from around the world.

    The limited edition bespoke case is designed by the band, is numbered, and printed on an old letterpress in Oxford.

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Inspired by the Russian folk tale of Vasilisa the Beautiful, who is tricked by her jealous stepmother and stepsisters into entering the dark forest to find a light so they can continue their needlework at night. They send her to the house of the terrifying Baba Yaga, where she must perform many impossible tasks, or risk certain death. She does this with the help of her mother’s blessed doll, which Vasilisa always keeps by her side. Baba Yaga, on realising Vasilisa must be blessed, sends her back to her step family with a burning skull for light. Upon her arrival home, this fire burns them all to ash, save Vasilisa, who, as seems to happen a lot in these fairy tales, eventually marries the king on account of her excellent needlework, and lives happily ever after.

Written and performed for Mr B's Emporium's Russia Night, with Francis Spufford talking about his book Red Plenty (

lyrics

Wake up, its cold but go
Lace up, for all your worth
Take what your body holds
Step up, you must step up.

She was sent to find light in the darkest of places
Bears might come, but she’ll stay in the forest through all this
For a moment she saw in, as trees started falling
But she’s safe, and she’ll stay in the forest through all this.

Sore hands in fallen leaves
Kneel down by splintered trees
She’ll find all the poppy seeds
To make oil, to make oil.

In the end, she found fire in the coldest of places
She’d been working her way through the forest in all this
Just in time and she’s turning as trees started burning
In this story she escapes from the forest and all this.

Sun rise, in her own eyes
Feel the sun rise, in her own eyes
Feel the sun rise, in her own eyes.

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from Travels from your armchair, track released December 1, 2011
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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