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Hollow night their wings

from Only Connect by Charlie Glasspool and Sarah McInnis

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Hollow night their wings
Cue sentimental strings
Foreboding spills ‘cross the floor
Pooling, gathering, the eye-spies that follow you

Montgomery’s Tavern
Hot tongues, hot torches burn
Whispering revolution
Dizzying, drinking, what *ails you will swallow you

(*triple entendre- troubles, ales and French “aile”, and swallow of course tee hee. Ok I’m a total loser)

(with musical urgency) I hear a cannon, let’s forego our plannin’
Take flight, rest is best, sealed beak
Save the rebellion for wing night next week

Vocalisation

West wing city hall
A cache of musket and ball
Forcing our feathers through bars
Armed to the tits now we’ll blast the red-breasted Brits

They’ve got a cannon, two kegs of Kilannan
Fly home, nest is best, sealed beak
Save the rebellion for wing night next week

(homage to “Moonlight Sonata”, staggered start choral reading)
Camber encumbered, ichthus imbalanced. We rise and fall for the exit (Sarah enters on exit). Moonlight floods Yonge Street. The stars are low tonight. You could collect them in your talons. There is no rebellion, there is no imminent revolution, there is no plan for the weekend, there is no coded message, there is no secret handshake. We grumble our goodnights. And yet there is a burning in our wings. And there is a burning in our mouths. And there is a burning which we (sing) lick from our rarely kissed lips.

Verse: Bb/D7/Gm/Eb6 F7
Refrain: N.C., bass plays descending chromatic line Ab, G, Gb, F, Eb

“Moonlight”: (piano solo) Gm-Gm/F-Eb Cm-D7 then Gm-Bb/F-Eb6-F7


Notes: Beethoven’s “Moonlight” Sonata would have been 36 years old at the time of the 1837 “rebellion” in Upper Canada.

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from Only Connect, released January 30, 2023
Sarah McInnis: voice
Charlie Glasspool: piano

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Charles Glasspool Ontario

Many well-known artists have sang Glasspool's songs--Juno award-winners Serena Ryder and Andrea Lindsay, plus Andre Ethier and Lily Frost to name a few. He was a founder of The Silver Hearts.

Currently playing and creating with Evangeline Gentle, Sarah McInnis, Wyatt Burton, Trevor Davis.

Curating LiSTEN MuCH! music series at TTOK and BGO Presents at Jethro's, both in NOGO/PTBO ... more

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