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from Drawing on my Dreams by Helen McCookerybook

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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

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I was a quiet girl and no-one noticed me
Until a passing whirlwind blew across my sea
No point in resisting: my protest wasn't heard
Up in the air I flew with the freedom of a bird
We blew into a storm and blew out of it again
We learned to make a plan, A-Z and 1-10
We felt our passions backwards, we flung them in the air
Invented different lives, live to the full, not time to spare.

Things like this don't happen to people like me
Things like this don't happen to people like me
Things like this don't happen to people like me
Things like this don't happen to people like me

Oh yeah yeah I was taken by surprise
Oh yeah yeah if opened up my eyes
Oh yeah yeah, at first it felt so strange
Oh yeah yeah, this crazy world of change

Oh if I'd had the loudest voice you'd ever heard
I'd never have made this journey from my teenage world
I've learned to tame the whirlwind, to ride it's wildest side
To wear my every difference with a sense of pride

Things like this don't happen to people like me
Things like this don't happen to people like me
Things like this don't happen to people like me
Things like this don't happen to people like me
Things like this don't happen to people like me
Things like this don't happen to people like me
Things like this don't happen to people like me
Things like this don't happen to people like me

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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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