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Sue Jones & Dave Banks - Jacob's Black Dove

from Artless by Dave Banks

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A memory of a perfect summer afternoon at Totleigh Barton, listening to two incredible musicians weaving a song in the Devon countryside. Here's to you both, Rach and Andy.

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Jacob’s Black Dove was singing today
Under the shade of the broad apple tree
and down by the bench with the view of the Vale
Andy was calling out harmony
to Jacob’s Black Dove’s sweet melody
to her song
to her melody
to her tumbling, diving melody


And the world stopped still for a moment apart
and the cows looked up and the drone of the bee
was the chant of a bass and the cords of my heart
found a counterpoint that pinioned me
on the bars of the Black Dove’s sweet melody
of her song
of her melody
of her spinning, her soaring melody


Jacob’s Black Dove - a sweet summer vagrant
swooping into our minds and our ears.
In the Green Garden, ‘neath blossom all fragrant,
or sharing our table, our laughter, our tears.
And she spun
and she dove
and she left us her feathers of rhythm and rhyme
and to us she was Jacob’s Black Dove.

And the world exhaled and turned on its axis
precisely aligned with the neck of her lyre.
Dandelion clocks like frozen explosions
were swept away like ash from the fire
of Jacob’s Black Dove’s sweet melody
of her song
of her melody
of her aerial acrobat’s melody.

Melody: © Sue Jones and Dave Banks 2014
Lyrics © Dave Banks 2014

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from Artless, released May 14, 2022
Sue Jones: vocals and harmonies
Dave Banks: vocal
Guitars, bass, cymbal: Dave Banks
Recorded by Dave Banks at home in Chesterfield
Mixed and mastered by Tom Nash

ISRC: UK-DVB-22-00007

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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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