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Joe's Walk

from Then, and Then: a memoir by DATSON

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In the tradition of Anglo Saxon agrarian festival hymns such as "we plough the fields & scatter''. John Barleycorn, the personification of the barley, encounters great suffering before succumbing to an unpleasant death. However, as a result of this death bread can be produced; therefore, Barleycorn dies so that others may live. Finally his body will be eaten as the bread. His blood is drunk as beer or whiskey. I first came across John Barleycorn via Traffic a band Steve Winwood was in. This is an antipodean reworking of the subject matter & is for my father.

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There is a summer road you’re walking on
through shady valley next to water song

Check out the lilies growing over there
they get their gear from who knows where?

Between the wattle glimpse of barley corn
the walk is short but the learning long

Gather ye hayseeds whilst you can
they tax the chaff to feed the land

There is a summer road you’re walking on
through shady valley next to water song

All by the banks of Albion
I can’t see much because the water’s brown

As falls the rain or settles dew
the plants push up the stars to view

Walk the road in harvest moon
It’s different now ‘neath silver glow

Weave you fingers through the strings
for all the joy that a life might bring

All that space folds into all that time
All that space folds into all that time

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from Then, and Then: a memoir, released June 1, 2020
© Geoffrey Datson and Annette Hughes
Producer: Geoffrey Datson
Recorded & mixed Greenroom, Cooroy

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DATSON Australia

GEOFFREY DATSON is a sound artist, combining spoken word, electronica and instrumentation in his recordings. Many poets recite their work to music, but few are also composers. Datson's work is a synthesis of forms of sonic expression in which the voice and the sound field are interdependent. ... more

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