'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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This song is based on the Austrian folk tale, The Seven Ravens, and involves seven naughty sons being turned accidently into ravens and flying off for ever. Their sister, when old enough, journeys off to find them, but has to stay silent for seven years, working away, in order that they can be turned back into her brothers again. On the sixth year she accidently falls into the hands of the local King who takes offence at her not speaking to him, and, after a one year incarceration, is just about to burn her, when her brothers fyl back, turn into men, and rescue her.
This tale is also very reminisant of the Hungarian tale, The Three Lemons, and the Czech story, The three golden hairs of Father Wisdom.
It was written and performed when Simon Winder came into Mr B's Emporium of Reading Delights to talk about the Penguin European Classics Collection.
lyrics
Time is over and I know you’re gone.
See you flying over, held my tongue
Lines I send you only keep you down
Faith in weather as my love is blown.
Wind was very strong today
When seven ravens flew away
See you far upon a hill of glass
I could never climb, but still I start
Build the steps I need to bear our weight
Seven years to make, and six I stayed
Wind was very strong today
When seven ravens flew away
I was taken by the wind and swept away
I could not respond to anything he’d say
I was taken by the wind and swept away
I could not respond to anything he’d say
Time is over for I’m almost done.
See you flying over, held my tongue.
Hope my voice is strong and calls you down.
Faith in weather and my love’s return.
I was taken by the wind and swept away
I could not respond to anything he’d say
credits
from Travels from your armchair,
released December 1, 2011
Written and recorded by The Bookshop Band
Mixed by Marco Migliari
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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