Hidden from View

Track 5 of the new Waterboys album AN APPOINTMENT WITH MR YEATS, to be released 19 September 2011.

The girl goes dancing there
on the leaf-sown, new-mown, smooth grass of the garden
escaped from her bitter youth
escaped from out of her crowd 
and her black cloud

Ah dancer, ah sweet dancer
Ah dancer, ah sweet dancer

If men come from the house
to lead her away please do not say she is crazy
lead them gently astray
let her finish the dance
finish the dance

Ah dancer, ah sweet dancer
Ah dancer, ah sweet dancer

She sings as the moon sings     
I am I, I am I
the greater grows my light
the further shall I fly 
I hear the wind a-blow
I hear the grass a-grow
And all that I know
I know, I know    

Ah dancer, ah sweet dancer
Ah dancer, ah sweet dancer

The girl goes dancing there
on the leaf-sown, new-mown, smooth grass of the garden
let her finish the dance
let her finish the dance
finish the dance

Ah dancer, ah sweet dancer
Ah dancer, ah sweet dancer
Ah dancer, ah sweet dancer
Ah dancer, ah sweet dancer


Acoustic Guitar: Mike Scott
Piano: James Hallawell
Fiddle: Steve Wickham
Drums: Ralph Salmins
Earth Resonator: Marc Arciero
8-string Bouzoukis, Electric Guitar, Voice: Mike Scott
Voice: Katie Kim
Voice: Freddie Stevenson
Harmonica: Steve Wickham
Tambourine: Ralph Salmins
Sax: Kate St John
Flute: Sarah Allen


SWEET DANCER

The Gap You Left

Sea Change

Wash away (demo)

Tell her from me

Youngblood---Landslide

Souped up fandango version with good rolling bassline - still missing my fade outro metaphysical rant which I shout as I drive through the gloaming

st jude : Later (Heaven to Mars version)

Silent Rooms FULL

Long dreamed of assassination lullaby for George W.  Rockaby Guantanemo Baybeeee. Giant production noise by Adam Fox, who broke bass strings and several vertebrae.  Is that Mark E Smith crooning in the looming chaos at the close? Possibly the only song in history to feature the word 'motorcade'.  Live fiddle, sampled blues 'arp.  Sounds even better on just acoustic and vox, Tom in detuned roadside shambleslide guitar.  Me dressed as blind performing monkey staring into middle space.  The video for this goes as follows:  Dark painterly stylised set,  dark gothic wood with curving road leading to golgotha style craggy hill.  Four soldiers carry a coffin draped with an American flag; I am dressed as a well known arabic bearded agent provocateur and sitting cross-legged atop said burial vessel.  I sing as the vocals kick in.  camera pans to the top of the hill - my destination - where there is a crucifixion scene.  Left and right crosses contain Mickey Mouse costumed figure and Donald Duck.  In the centre, face raised to his forsaking father is Ronald McDonald. I haven't thought beyond that tableau, although assembled cast doing some RiverDance style hoppitty skippitty would certainly leave the audience profoundly moved.

st jude : Jawbone

Tumbling chord sequence, simpler when just the two of us, but a decent big sound version here

st jude : Displacement Song

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Here are a few samples of ever more rarely stolen musical trysts with myself Tom and my main man Tom S as 'st jude' 

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st jude : Jawbone

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