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Green Ginger Wine

from Green Ginger Wine by Robin Elliott

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  • Compact Disc (CD) + Digital Album

    Nice card gatefold case with artwork by Chris Timoney in greens and gingers with leaves, includes pull-out lyric booklet pre-folded and ready-to-read.

    Includes unlimited streaming of Green Ginger Wine via the free Bandcamp app, plus high-quality download in MP3, FLAC and more.
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  • Record/Vinyl + Digital Album

    12" vinyl double-EP with Green Ginger Wine as side A plus five songs from the cut-short follow up Nowhere in Particular as the B side.

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about

old drunks, corruption, and the decline of life as we know it by the A406

lyrics

I'm at the bottom of the well
in the bottle on the shelf
and the rain is pouring
if I could find a promise I could keep
I could find the man I used to be
but now I know he was always me
so here I'll sit and sing along in time
with my whiskey and green ginger wine

there are gypsies washing windscreens by the lights out on the ring-road
and gangs roaming the streets
abandoned mansions crumble round the creeping ivy
and a decent man can't hold his head up high
and not get stared down
by kids just off the playgrounds
and now I sway
my head is heavy
I've made mistakes I've made too many

green ginger
green ginger
ginger wine

I'm at the edges of the city
where some places used to be
where the old canals run green
but the streets here seem so strange now
like they came in at night and found me out
changed themselves around
till the houses are facade-fronts in a dream
of some moonlit suburban Western

Yasmin, she works for the sauna/massage on the corner
bt she'll meet me
if I pay her
and so it was that day when
she lead me by the hand over the footbridge
to trees and to the lilacs
she knows how to get me on my knees
I like to wallow in my misery

green ginger
green ginger
ginger wine
all the time

in the woods were voices up ahead
someone was shouting
Yasmin ran, she thought it was her pimp
for some reason I kept walking
and in the clearing two men argued over a child
kept quiet by the barrel of a gun
and when that child looked at me
I ran until my lungs burned and I could not breathe

green ginger
green ginger
ginger wine
all the time

© Robin Elliott 2015
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from Green Ginger Wine, released September 14, 2015

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Robin Elliott London, UK

Extraordinary songwriter and performer.

Funnier and more self-deprecating than this makes me sound.

Forthcoming album There is a Land is awash with novel narrative strategies and novelty Brexit tunes.

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