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A Poison Tree
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Acoustic folk ska!
singer songwriter acoustic dick savage
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www.dicksavage.cz now online!
I'm a one-man acoustic show featuring furious guitar playing, passionate vocals and lyrics to make you think (well, sometimes). "Frenetic one-man acoustic gorgeosity" they call it.
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Genre
Alternative • Ska
Charts
Peak #247
Peak in subgenre #4
Author
Dick Savage/William Blake
Rights
Dick Savage 2009
Uploaded
July 08, 2009
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MP3
MP3 2.7 MB • 128 kbps • 2:56
Story behind the song
After a student once asked me to explain the words to this poem by William Blake (from Songs of Experience) I couldnt get them out of my head. A tune quickly developed and the whole song soon after.
Lyrics
I was angry with my friend: I told my wrath, my wrath did end. I was angry with my foe: I told it not, my wrath did grow. And I watered it in fears Night and morning with my tears, And I sunned it with smiles And with soft deceitful wiles. And it grew both day and night, Till it bore an apple bright, And my foe beheld it shine, And he knew that it was mine - And into my garden stole When the night had veiled the pole; In the morning, glad, I see My foe outstretched beneath the tree William Blake
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