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Artless

from Artless by Dave Banks

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Yes. You remember that summer of the viral unpleasantness. The only good thing we can say about it, is that we didn't have to put up with all the "arty" nonsense - you know: poets, sensitive singer-songwriters, actors and crusty jugglers.

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The days are waxing longer. The summertime is nigh,

But lyre’s strings are silent, and the poets barely sigh,

And strutting, fretting actors perforce forego the stage.

Ah. Sumer is Icumen In – a guileless, artless age.

Lyric and music by © Dave Banks 2020


Traditional lyric:

Sumer is icumen in
Loude sing cuckoo
Groweth seed
and bloweth mead
and springs the woode nu
Sing cuckoo

Ewe bleateth after lamb
Loweth after calve ku
Bullock starteth, bucke farteth
Merry sing cuckoo

Well singest thou cuckoo

credits

from Artless, released May 14, 2022
Bird recording by Dave Banks in Treeneuk woods, Chesterfield
Vocal: Dave Banks
Synths: Dave Banks
Recorded by Dave Banks at home in Chesterfield
Mixed and mastered by Tom Nash
Fragments of the folk song "Sumer is Icumen In" (way out of copyright)

ISRC: UK-DVB-22-00001

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Dave Banks Chesterfield, UK

Dave Banks is a songwriter and musician from Chesterfield, UK. He has also played in "The Sedatives". "Me and Mr Jones" and "Poke O'Swedgers"

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