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Song of the Bird

from Bah​-​Rabba​-​Jaggle by Barabajagal

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With lyrics adapted from a Walk Whitman poem.

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Singer I hear your notes I hear your call,
And my own Manhattan with spires.
The sparkling hurried tides and the ships
And the city at hand with dwellings so dense.

Sing on sing on you grey brown bird
Sing on from the swap and the bushes.
Pour your chant and
Sing on sing on you grey brown bird.

Singer you're the wreck of the beautiful
And my own Manhattan with spires
Show the clouds and the trails' trips
Into the deep recesses.

Sing on sing on you grey brown bird
Sing on from the swap and the bushes.
Pour your chant and
Sing on sing on you grey brown bird.

Passing vision and passing nights,
Passing hands and lucid lights,
With the knowledge of death at my side,
I fled forth to the receiving night,
Down to the waters shores,
Down the dim swamp path,
Passing the cedars and ghostly pines,
And the singer shyly sang for me,
Passing hands of the trees,
Until the charm of the carol held me,
As I held hands in the night,
And my voice sang the song of the bird.

Sing on sing on you grey brown bird
Sing on from the swap and the bushes
Pour your chant and
Sing on sing on you grey brown bird.
Sing on from the swap and the bushes
Pour your chant and
Sing on sing on you grey brown bird.

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from Bah​-​Rabba​-​Jaggle, released November 4, 2014
David Cooper, Emma Bennet, James T-B

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Barabajagal Dunedin, New Zealand

Barabajagal are a band who make music.

It's pretty ok stuff really.

It's rooted in psychedelia but incorporates so many genres that it doesn't really seem too definable. But it's ok with that.

Despite being a kiwi band the songwriter is actually rather English, so whenever he sings you'd be hard pressed to go "wow, those kiwis huh". Still, New Zealand-ish.

Pronounced Bah-Rabba-Jaggle. ... more

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