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Some of you may remember that a while back I got involved in a campaign to stop a London council from bulldozing social housing and replacing it with upmarket flats and relocating the current residents to another area of London.
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The idea then was to put together a series of songs representing the thoughts and feelings from the various people affecting and affected by the plan. It's taking a while but coming together.
This is the song of The Lollipop Lady (I believe they're called "crossing guards" in the US)
A little different from some of my other stuff. For once I'm doing everything on this!
I started writing it in the summer and Richard Marris rewrote my clumsy verses and gave me the chord progression for the bridge.
Tracked in GB and mixed in Logic. It's pretty laid back with minimal percussion and midi string bass.
Gibson C1 classical guitar. cajon, tambo, apple loops, midi instrumentation and Django the dog on intro.
The Lollipop Lady's Lament © Marris/Langford 2011
Lollipop lady on her last day
Adding up what they took away
No more little runny noses
No more Christmas Cadbury’s Roses
40 years on this one street
40 years on those two feet
And she would welcome pension day
If it hadn’t come this way
They empty streets with planning laws
Gated parking for 4x4s
Little princes strapped inside
Why walk though life when you can ride
She knows it’s only money moving she shouldn’t take it personally
But she doesn't know what is improving
Concrete's all she sees
The flats will sell to bright young things
They don't know what ambition brings
An ulcer here, a breakdown there
A bankruptcy and falling shares
They'll try to make the place so cool
They'll shut the shops and close the schools
There's lots to take and none to give
That's not the way she wants to live
A tired old woman who doesn't like change
Now all she says she gets is pain
And thinks it might be for the best
And she'll hang up her orange vest
A bunch of flowers, medium sized
She knows when she's been patronised
Turns her back on concrete grey
Crosses the road and walks away
http://www.soundclick.com/bands/default.cfm?bandID=1008252
The idea then was to put together a series of songs representing the thoughts and feelings from the various people affecting and affected by the plan. It's taking a while but coming together.
This is the song of The Lollipop Lady (I believe they're called "crossing guards" in the US)
A little different from some of my other stuff. For once I'm doing everything on this!
I started writing it in the summer and Richard Marris rewrote my clumsy verses and gave me the chord progression for the bridge.
Tracked in GB and mixed in Logic. It's pretty laid back with minimal percussion and midi string bass.
Gibson C1 classical guitar. cajon, tambo, apple loops, midi instrumentation and Django the dog on intro.
The Lollipop Lady's Lament © Marris/Langford 2011
Lollipop lady on her last day
Adding up what they took away
No more little runny noses
No more Christmas Cadbury’s Roses
40 years on this one street
40 years on those two feet
And she would welcome pension day
If it hadn’t come this way
They empty streets with planning laws
Gated parking for 4x4s
Little princes strapped inside
Why walk though life when you can ride
She knows it’s only money moving she shouldn’t take it personally
But she doesn't know what is improving
Concrete's all she sees
The flats will sell to bright young things
They don't know what ambition brings
An ulcer here, a breakdown there
A bankruptcy and falling shares
They'll try to make the place so cool
They'll shut the shops and close the schools
There's lots to take and none to give
That's not the way she wants to live
A tired old woman who doesn't like change
Now all she says she gets is pain
And thinks it might be for the best
And she'll hang up her orange vest
A bunch of flowers, medium sized
She knows when she's been patronised
Turns her back on concrete grey
Crosses the road and walks away
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ShadowofNine
Smooth tune, fine performance, enjoyed the whole thing from note one...