End of year catch-up... let’s have a look at 2012, shall we ( Read more... )

EQUAL

In the dear old Church of England

I’m welcome to attend

I could help out with the cleaning

There are cassocks I could mend

I could make and serve the coffee

And all the while pretend

That this meant that I was equal after all...

As a candidate for Parliament

I’m welcome to apply

If I look well-groomed, wear decent shoes

And catch the camera’s eye

As the ( Read more... )

SPACEJUNK

Twinkle Twinkle little star, not very bright is what we are

Up above the world so high, all of our spacejunk filling the sky

Every probe and satellite we have sent to the starry night

Adds to the mess of junk up there far out of sight, though, so why should we care?

Twinkle Twinkle little star, not very bright is what we are

Up above the ( Read more... )

At least, I think it was episode 3 - the farmers dreading the visit by the man from the Min of Ag, who could take their land from them if he felt they weren't farming it well enough. We heard of the farmer who stayed put, was besieged and shot, and died later in hospital of his wounds. I wonder how many stories of that nature never got widely told ( Read more... )

This was last week's episode - the segment where it was made clear that every bit of food the rats ate was one more bushel that the beleaguered merchant navy needed to bring ashore... no tune yet but I haven't gone looking yet.

MRS RAT

I charge you all good yeomen

That live on England’s farms

Take arms against the rats before

They do us all much harm

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It's the segment about the Bevin Boys that got me from this one... I have a tune for this, and it's a cracking tune too, but in absence of ascratch track yet, I'm catching up by sharing the lyrics...

THE CINDER ROCK

Got my marching orders in the morning post today

When the brindled pups arrive, I’ll be long miles away

Don’t expect a postcard from the ( Read more... )

Well, it'll be a song if it grows a tune. But in the meantime, here are the words...

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FIVE GOLD RINGS

Oh what a five-ring circus, roll up, roll up to see

It’s world-wide peace and harmony galore

There’s a new and shiny pool down where the lido used to be

But I can’t afford to swim there anymore.

We love our seaside semi and we like to watch the ( Read more... )

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mf6RYekCJeg&feature=youtu.be

Following on from the lyric and the audio file I've presented here in recent days, here now is a YouTube by Kim Parker, of my song 'Telling Canterbury Tales' - literature, history, the Occupy movement and church politics all together in one song.

It's very much a companion-piece to 'The ( Read more... )

That lyric I posted a couple of days ago: it grew music and I've caught a scratch track. It's now up on Bandcamp as a free download ( Read more... )

Trawling the net for update and comment in the last two days following the removal of the St Paul's Occupy camp, I found that the good Reverend Fraser had not been silent. St Paul's itself had released a brief statement, visible on its website, on which I shall not directly comment here. I wondered what the leader of the Church, Dr Rowan Williams, ( Read more... )