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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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This song was inspired by Jamrach's Menagerie, by Carol Birch. See the live version here: vimeo.com/30924451

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Gold and Black

Born to a cot in Bermondsey
Sailors song for a bedtime story
Reborn in a tigers mouth
Dragged into a brand new land

The Sailors song
Pumping my blood from before I was born
And the big black sea,
Filled, my dreams

Finger tips, shiny black, wrinkled bricks
Rutted horse shit, jagged lanes, bent elbows,
crooked knees streets, heavy smells

Crossed you as you passed
Weighing your senses down

Oh and above all this rang the sound
Of voices wild and dark
Melodies in flight, tiptoeing,
Above the sight of us
And I imagine myself far away
Somewhere hot and strange
Where the cats are painted gold and black
And I am not afraid
Where the cats are painted gold and black
And I am not afraid

And above all this rang the sound
Of voices wild and dark
And it is here, that my future starts
And is to be with the crimson beasts
And the wings that beat
Blood red as the black sea fills my head
And the sailors song pumping my blood
From before I was born
And the black sea, has seen and soaked through me

Oh and above all this rang the sound
Of voices wild and dark
Melodies in flight, tiptoeing,
Above the sight of us
And I imagine myself far away
Somewhere hot and strange
Where the cats are painted gold and black
And I am not afraid
Where the cats are painted gold and black
And I am not afraid

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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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