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The Properties of Chalk and Sun

from Poetry and Rhyme by Helen McCookerybook

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This was inspired by the artist ben Cummings, who used to draw round stramgers' shadows with chalk on sunny days.

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The properties of chalk and sun
You make a mark and then you run
While meeting faces catch the light
Their fleeting traces drift from sight and they're gone.

Take the sun, it fades away
Your soul into the shadows grey
This temporary mark's in vain
With one sweep of the brushing rain they're gone.

I have seen the mysteries of the city night
I have seen the puzzles and the tricks of noonday light
Moonlight pale and secretive can hide a hundred sins
But you can be a fugitive whose darkness is within

O cruel sun of Africa
You're tempered by the Northern air
Beneath the Arctic's melting snows
this hemisphere's assurance goes, and it's gone.

I have seen the mysteries of the city night
I have seen the puzzles and the tricks of noonday light
Moonlight pale and secretive can hide a hundred sins
But you can be a fugitive whose darkness is within

The properties of chalk and sun
You make a mark and then you run
While meeting faces catch the light
Their fleeting traces drift from sight and they're gone.

Copyright, PRS, Helen McCookerybook

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from Poetry and Rhyme, released January 3, 2013
Helen McCookerybook: guitar and vocals
Allan Bradbury: cello

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Helen McCookerybook is an outstanding songwriter who's beginnings formed in the punk era, old associates The Monochrome Set/The Pirhanas her first band was The Chefs (John Peel fave) She later signed to RCA with her band The Horns and had a couple of minor hits
Helen took 20 years out to become a Mum and PHD, taking up her songwriting again in 2003. Suburban Pastoral was her 1st solo record.
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