The
Children
Come Aboard
(TP011, second edition released 24th February 2005)
Thames delta blues and metropolitan folksongs
Sample songs, updated 22/04/08:
Thank You, Henry / Hitchhiker’s Guide / Before You Fall
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the lyrics:
Good Luck Child ‘I need your arms to run to and your legs to hold me tight’
Out Into the Light Ghost dance music
Dodge A boogie with a complex
Hitchhiker’s Guide Zen and the art of thumb-dance
Underground Rider An anthem for the citizens of Tubular hells
Before You Fall ‘You lost the plot, the cameras and the costumes and the lot’
Thank You, Henry Ford, that is
Drinking Water Inspired by Tommy Johnson’s ‘Cool Drink of Water Blues’
Uptomystic ‘Yes the answer’s yes’
Blues and Stout ‘This band are no beginners, they’re all well-practised sinners’
Howling Wolf Blues in the key of peculiar, based on the riff from ‘Vicksburg Drag’ by Previous Albert Brown
Open Up the Doors ‘Everything inside is yours’
Grey Cat & The Blackbird The revenge of the avians
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