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The ballad of the Barrel Organ Boys

from We Are The Foxes by The Bookshop Band

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    The Bookshop Band release WE ARE THE FOXES, their second album of 2016, inspired by a collection of books that revolve around stories of cities and those who live in them, curated by their local independent bookshop Mr B’s Emporium of Reading Delights. The songs were first performed in front of the authors themselves at the bookshop’s events.

    The city-tales that inspire this album span both time and continents; from the seedy printing worlds of London’s Victorian backstreets in MJ Carter’s novel The Infidel Stain, to the Australian high rises in Tim Winton’s Eyrie. The band sing on urban life through the many different lenses each book gives, via the lives of a household in Armistead Maupin’s groundbreaking Tales of the City series, to through the eyes of the foxes that roam the streets in Ned Beauman’s GLOW.

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Inspired by The Infidel Stain, by M.J. Carter.

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Let us sing a story
Of murder in a shop
The details are so gory
You’d pay us to stop
The coppers say it’s fine
And to go about our days
Singing for a living in (dis)honest ways
The case is closed.
But it wont no accidental,
and everybody knows it
We suppose that the coppers
gone and looked the other way
We’ve seen these two odd gentlemen
about the place
Asking everybody what they heard
So chuck us down a penny,
we won’t lie (to your face)
And we’ll give this song another verse
The case is closed.
But it wont no accidental,
and everybody knows it
We suppose, that the coppers
gone and looked the other way
There’s lots of speculation
bout who it might have been
Who’d have the motivation
to set this awful scene
The Duke of Cumberland
Or Spring Heeled Jack?
Or any of the fellas
We see round the back?
The case is closed.
But it wont no accidental,
and everybody knows it
We suppose, that the coppers
gone and looked the other way
The poor get no say in these criminal affairs
Let alone the matters of the state
Even if the printer sold his dodgy wares
We didn’t think that he deserved
his gruesome fate
The case is closed
But it wont no accidental,
and everybody knows it
We suppose, that the coppers
gone and looked the other way
Get lost, we’re closed
Cos it wont no accidental
and everybody knows it
We suppose, that the coppers
gone and looked the other way

credits

from We Are The Foxes, released July 3, 2016
Beth Porter - vocals, concert ukulele, glockenspiel. Ben Please - vocals, harmonium, concert ukulele.

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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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