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Title Wave Books
25th January 2019 - Albuquerque NM.

A very special second-hand bookshop founded almost by accident, according to manager Leslie, with a particular emphasis on home-schooling literature and support. Nic played with our 18 month old daughter Molly in the horror section while we performed. We were tired after five days at the booksellers’ annual Winter Institute, but loved every second of it. The back photo, taken by Rachael Rodgers, is from this shop.

THE CROWNING
Inspired by Richard the Second, by William Shakespeare.

lyrics

The crowning of we kings The subject of divine things Righteous by virtue Bearing majesty too...
An Army for my soul
By currency of angels
My looks can kill off You’re banished in the breath of...
The balm that anoints me No water in all the sea Can clean from me
Here on my head this crown
It is woven through me to, the ground Here on my head this crown
And a cloak made of brass around...
But is it that we kings Were made in the crowning? A pomp of a cushion
For a crown to sit on
We taste grief and eat bread We have wants, and need friends A man who just leads on
All of those who kneel on
This balm that protects me By my own tears has now been Washed free from me
Here on my bed this crown With nettles and flowers round My kingdom of worms abound With a cloak made of soil around
I’ve wasted time, time wastes me Now soil is the king of me
So here on my head this crown Ever last here, while I go down Down, down, down, down.

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from LIVE in American Bookshops, released August 11, 2020

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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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