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A child is gone
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The tragic story of a white middle-class couple and their abducted child caused a frenzy of media activity recently in the UK.
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Touching, funny, serious, award-winning songs about life and love; all penned, played, arranged, sung, recorded and mixed by Al.
So he never existed... not really, as a real person. He made himself up one day in 1969 and lived a dual existence: half of him surviving on dead-end jobs, the other half believing that one day he would write at least one song that the world would remember. Now half of him is dead, and, as with all conjoined twins (without major surgery) that sentences both of them. It would be sad if it wasn't so pathetic. Fairy-tales always end this way... well not always, rarely... and this was rarely a fairy-tale; so there the similarities end: the ending was neither sad nor happy - it just... was. The enigmatic and tragic Jackson C Frank was a hero of his... now he emulates that frail and failed soul. Maybe in 40 years people will still say 'Al who?', much as they do today. That would be both a great epitaph, and a fitting legacy. Below is the page as he inexplicably and hurriedly left it: hot meal still on the table; knife and fork still in place and at the ready; the drink untouched in the bone china cup... ************************************************************* I now have an album: 'The sentence that I serve' available from CD baby. Click on this mini album cover to take you there: INVALID -- CDBABY INVALID INVALID INVALID INVALID for AL STRAVINSKY: The sentence that I serve -- It's on iTunes too, where the whole album or individual tracks can be downloaded in mp3 format: http://phobos.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewAlbum?playListId=216015067 Thanks. I've been a professional musician for 24 years, and over 3000 gigs (I've stopped counting); always working, travelling, trying to make ends meet...nearly...if you could just hold these a minute please...er...thanks: my hands are now free so I can get on with actually (ironically) playing some music at last. I sing and play bass guitar and I play some acoustic/electric guitars also.
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Genre
Acoustic • Acoustic General
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#11,410 today Peak #142
#3,735 in subgenre Peak #43
Author
Al Stravinsky
Uploaded
June 14, 2007
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MP3 2.3 MB • 128 kbps • 2:32
Story behind the song
The tragic story of a white middle-class couple and their abducted child caused a frenzy of media activity recently in the UK. Meanwhile, every few seconds in the Third World, an equally innocent and valued child dies, with no such publicity.
Lyrics
Verse 1 A child is gone, The bed is empty Save for grief and guilt and memories; Taken while their backs were turned, What lessons have we learned? A child is gone... Verse 2 A child is mourned, Stolen in the night. I hold my children tighter; Never will my back be turned, This lesson I have learned, A child is mourned... Middle 8 Her name and her picture Are a constant reminder Of how priceless a child's life is; While the nameless and faceless Mean nothing to us... Verse 3 A child is gone, A bed is empty Stolen by hunger, sickness, poverty - Taken while our backs were turned; What lessons have we learned? A child is gone... Verse 4 A child is mourned Someone's daughter, someone's son, Each second claims another one - Taken while our backs are turned, What lessons have we learned? A child is mourned, A child is gone.
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