Name: Song To Drown To
Duration: P00H02M42S
Description: Includes cut-up lyrics from "Green Grow’th The Holly" by Henry VIII

Song To Drown To

from Lady Jane Grey's Wholesome Ritual by Death and The Poetess

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Includes cut-up lyrics from "Green Grow’th The Holly" by Henry VIII

lyrics

SONG TO DROWN TO (incl some of "Green Grow'th The Holly")

How can I save you?
Henricians don’t swim!
Else man thou starvest!
Else man thou drowneth!

How can I save you?
How can I save you?
How can I save you?
How can I save you?
Else man thou drowneth!
It blooms eternal

It blooms eternal
The green holly grows
It blooms
How can I save you?
How?

How can I save you?
How can I save you?
Elizabethans don’t swim!
How can I save you?
Else man thou drowneth!
Else man thou starvest!
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Coda clip:
“What do you think happens, eh? When he gets into bed, and his consciousness of sin begins to…(laughs) But he’s right, a married man should be faithful to his wife. Utterly, utterly faithful. ‘As the ivy grow’th green and never chang’th hue. (sings) So am I ever hath been, unto my lady true!’ I wrote that. I forget who for.”

- Keith Michell as Henry VIII to Anne of Cleves (wrt Philip of Hesse) Six Wives of Henry VIII series (1970)

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from Lady Jane Grey's Wholesome Ritual, released February 29, 2020
Blake: vocals, guitar, title
jojo: vocals, flute, lyrics & cut-up

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Death and The Poetess Boston, Massachusetts

Blake Girndt (The I Want You, AxeMunkee, With Uncle Bones) and jojo Lazar (Burlesque Poetess, Army of Toys) bringing you crypt-folk tunes & spare bones for your spare change.

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