'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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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.
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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