A mournful folk song
flute
folk
oboe
picked
melancholia
Story behind the song
Another folk club favourite in the day - using the 'other' LC picking style! Ralph Simpson would play flute for an instrumental verse and add frills around the vocals.
Lyrics
Celandine is only human
but her mother lends a hand
Likes to sit and play the works of Schumann
on her brothers one man band
Secretly longing for the days
when Elvis Presley was the rage
Opening a box of Christmas crackers
that she bought at Easter for a song
Says a prayer for all the tramps and slackers
for she knows theyre doing wrong
Hoping her wedding will be white
