A lamentation on mortality, navel-gazing and lunar behaviour, written straddling the gallows of lockdown under the pastoral eye of a wise tutor.

Another Swing Of The Moon

I wrote this when I was about 18, and it should be treated as you should treat any late-adolescent: with unexpressed ridicule but boundless encouragement.

Aw Am Away

Sometimes they all start with a single line which happens to rhyme, as did this. I sat on the first verse of this for about five years before being forced to complete it. It's funny what a deadline can do. I think it's fundamentally about how materialism destroys everything.

She Knows How

An absolutely wonderful rendition of a traditional christian song for the holidays. Joan Baez featured this song in her performance at the 1959 Newport Folk festival. It springboarded her to fame. 

Virgin Mary Had One Son

The Virgin Mary Had One Son

“Soul Sel is about chosen family. It’s about things you learn as you move through life—discovering what’s important and what makes you feel whole and fulfilled. “Lyrics:
I am traveled 
I know 
Stretched a long walk 
Tossed along stones 
And wrote A librarys worth 
Of tragedy that I d rather forget 
The hour's golden I've sworn 
I've had a good go I've left a good gone 
If ride a ticket I'll hold 
You better keep close 
The sun keeps you warm 
And oh 
The rainbow road 
We've stumbled across 
We've called ourselves 
Home Can old 
Come along slow 
To bury the boat 
To roll the way forward 
The owl 
The wisest I'm told 
Has spun a good joke 
Spoke our way 
Cold If how's the question I hope 
We'll sell our own show 
We'll travel our own Pebbled road

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