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Hymn to Kent

from Suburban Pastoral by Helen McCookerybook

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    14 track CD featuring the first songs I'd recorded for more than 20 years. Cover art by Ben Wilson, the chewing gum painter. Featuring guest appearances by Lester Square (Monochrome Set), Dan Whitehouse (vocals), Paul Davey (sax), Paul Taylor (trombone), John Eacott (trumpet), Tash Bryant (cello), Jon Bond (cello), Allan Bradbury (cello), Spence Brown (double bass), Anja Hagge (accordion), and BJ Cole (pedal steel guitar). Recorded by Tom Greenwood. design by Emerald Moseley, photo by Mike Slocombe.

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lyrics

Hymn to Kent

Lets take a trip to the garden of England
Watch how the roses twine round the doors
Beautiful roses that smell so enticing
Thorns on their stems that can cut you like claws

There's blood on our hands in the white land of righteousness
Where are the roses now Autumn has come
Beautiful roses that smelled so enticing
Blossoms have perished now summer has gone

Lets drift away from the dust and the grime
Travel south easterly far back in time
Rose tinted glasses and bile bitter wine
Drunk in the evening cut down in their prime

Shall we remember the garden of Eden
Or shall we remember this mud trampled plain
With dry blooms laid out on the graves of our ancestors
Thorns on their stems to remind us of pain

End of the line for museums of memories and
End of the line for the past and it's lies
Truth is as bitter as roses are beautiful
Hatred's the last of our passions to die

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from Suburban Pastoral, released January 2, 2013
Guitar/Vocals: Helen

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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. ... more

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