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  • Compact Disc (CD) + Digital Album

    11 Track CD

    “Helen McCookerybook has an excellent new record …”
    Gideon Coe, BBC Radio 6 Music, 22/09/22

    Includes 3 Bonus Tracks as digital downloads

    Comes in a gatefold all cardboard case - Ecopak

    Front cover drawing by Helen McCallum (aged 5)
    Back cover still from "Femme Fatale" (2021) by Naimad
    Inside cover photograph & label drawing by Helen McCookerybook

    Little Egret is dedicated to James McCallum
    Thanks to: Ian, Jane North, Damian, Ruth

    Big Song Records, HMcC06

    Signed on request

    Available at gigs

    Includes unlimited streaming of Drawing on my Dreams via the free Bandcamp app, plus high-quality download in MP3, FLAC and more.
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Here is a box with a sliver lock
Bound in iron and solid as rock
It's wood is dark with the age of time
and carved on it's side is an ancient rhyme

Centuries of female shame
The never-ending woman-blame
The arch destroyer, courtesan
Root of evil, bane of man

Oh Pandora with your key to evil
So decried by so many people, for
Setting free the malicious forces
From underworld and devilish sources

But a shadow flits around this place
It's the shadow of a man with a guilty face
The sin and death that has been unleashed
Also belongs to this vile beast

Oh Pandora with your key to evil
So decried by so many people, for
Setting free the malicious forces
From underworld and devilish sources

So wrap yourself tight in copper clothes
As out of the casket, poison flows
Wear your hats of steel and your boots of lead
All living things will soon be dead.

Oh Pandora with your key to evil
So decried by so many people, for
Setting free the malicious forces
From underworld and devilish sources

The source of life will sizzle and burn
Now evil is here, it can never return.

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from Drawing on my Dreams, released October 7, 2022

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Helen McCookerybook UK

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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