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Time Time Time

from Gracious Wings by Jackie Oates

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    Gracious Wings is the 8th solo album from English traditional singer, Jackie Oates.

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Charlie Dore first brought this song to my attention when we put together a (what turned out to be) one-off concert under the guise ‘The Ladies Of Nettlebed’ featuring me, Megan Henwood, Charlie Dore and the late, and very missed, Rowan Godel. The chorus has etched itself in my mind a lot this year through shadowing music psychotherapist Tom Crook at Sobell House Hospice.

lyrics

11. Time Time Time – Tom Waits

Well the smart moneys on Harlow and the moon is in the street
And the shadow boys are breaking all the laws
And you’re east to east Saint Louis and the wind is making speeches
And the rain sounds like a round of applause
And Napoleon is weeping in his carnival saloon
His invisible fiance’s in the mirror
And the band is going home its raining hammers raining nails
And its true there’s nothing left for him down here

CHORUS

And its time time time
And its time time time
And its time time time that you love
And its time time time

And they all pretend they’re orphans and their memories like a train
You can see it getting smaller as it fades away
And the things you can’t remember tell the things you can’t forget
That history puts a saint in every dream
Well she said she’d stick around until the bandages came off
But those mama’s boys just don’t know when to quit
And Matilda asks the sailors are those dreams or are those prayers
So just close your eyes son this won’t hurt a bit

Well things are pretty lousy for a calendar girl
The boys just dive right off and crash into the street
And when she’s on a roll she pulls a razor from her boot
And a thousand pigeons fall around her feet
So put a candle in the window and a kiss upon his lips
‘Till the dish outside the window fills with rain
And just like the stranger with weeds around his heart
Pay the fiddler off ‘till I come back again

credits

from Gracious Wings, track released September 2, 2022
Mike Cosgrave – guitar, accordion
John Parker – double bass
Backing Vocals – Simon Emmerson, Tom Crook

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Jackie Oates Wallingford, UK

Jackie Oates is a mainstay of English traditional music and one of the country’s best loved folk performers. Her deeply personal 2018 album The Joy Of Living was described as “utterly gorgeous” by The Guardian. Through collaboration and commission, Jackie brings elements of the English tradition to new people and places; bringing a much needed calm and joy to those who hear it. ... more

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