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Ten Tongues - Hack-Poets Guild.
Written by Marry Waterson.
Video by Marry Waterson
From new album ‘Blackletter Garland’ out 10th March on
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Hack-Poets Guild features Marry Waterson, Lisa Knapp & Nathaniel Mann
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Cellos Barney Morse Brown
Percussion Lawrence Hunt
Additional Instruments Gerry Diver
Produced & mixed by Gerry Diver
In special association with Sound UK
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Lyrics:
Ten tongues, ten tongues,
ten tongues i...n one head.
One went out to seek for bread,
to feed the living in the dead.
Blood darkens the stone,
When night left none to see.
I cut a man’s throat and
to a stake the judge chained me.
Flesh dropped from my bones,
strung up to the sky for shame.
The top of my skull fell in,
bare and ragged in the rain
Ten tongues, ten tongues,
ten tongues in one head.
One went out to seek for bread,
to feed the living in the dead.
Oh, let the wind blow, oh let the wind blow.
His head was always towards Hasely.
Let the wind blow where it may.
Matted hair and thistle down,
in the weft of wood and clay.
A pair of birds built me a crown,
when hawthorns hung with may
It’s said when in their nest,
sat singing mourning songs
Blue eggs strangely speckled red,
hatched out eight young ones.
Ten tongues, ten tongues,
ten tongues in one head.
One went out to seek for bread
to feed the living in the dead.Show more
