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The stateman's holiday

from Aux Frigos ! by Octave Crash

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poème de William Butler Yeats
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I lived among great houses,
Riches drove out rank,
Base drove out the better blood,
And mind and body shrank.
No Oscar ruled the table,
But I’d a troop of friends
That knowing better talk had gone
Talked of odds and ends.
Some knew what ailed the world
But never said a thing,
So I have picked a better trade
And night and morning sing:
Tall dames go walking in grass-green Avalon.

Am I a great Lord Chancellor
That slept upon the Sack?
Commanding officer that tore
The khaki from his back?
Or am I de Valera,
Or the King of Greece,
Or the man that made the motors?
Ach, call me what you please!
Here’s a Montenegrin lute,
And its old sole string
Makes me sweet music
And I delight to sing:
Tall dames go walking in grass-green Avalon.

With boys and girls about him.
With any sort of clothes,
With a hat out of fashion,
With Old patched shoes,
With a ragged bandit cloak,
With an eye like a hawk,
With a stiff straight back,
With a strutting turkey walk.
With a bag full of pennies,
With a monkey on a chain,
With a great cock’s feather,
With an old foul tune.
Tall dames go walking in grass-green Avalon.

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from Aux Frigos !, released March 21, 2021

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Octave Crash Paris, France

Octave Crash se spécialise dans la reprise (de) volée sans filet, tendance anar chic. Au programme, de la poésie, du glam et encore de la poésie, en français, en anglais, en italien...
2 guitares - basse - batterie - un peu de theremine bricolé...
Octave crash est un groupe de scène : trop pingres ou trop feignants pour entrer en studio. ... more

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