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LADY ELEANOR'S DREAM

from BLUE AND WHITE by Huw Parsons

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This is my version of the old song 'The Mistletoe Bough' which was popular with the Victorians who sang it at Christmas. In the original song the bride-to-be hides in an old chest during a party game on the night before her wedding and is only discovered years later, and as dead as a doornail, by her broken hearted would-be husband. My version is pretty gruesome too and I'm told it has very unpleasant undertones, but at least my Lady Eleanor survives her ordeal and survives relatively unscathed! It's based on a true story about the Lovell family, with the horrid event taking place in the village of Bawdrip on the Somerset Levels hundreds of years ago.
The strange eerie accompaniment, by the way, is nothing more than a saxophone playing part of 'Brother Can You Spare a Dime' stretched twelve times.

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from BLUE AND WHITE, released February 15, 2019
LADY ELEANOR'S DREAM: Words, Voice and Electronic Effects – Huw.

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Huw Parsons Hay On Wye, UK

Huw Parsons was born in 1954, grew up in Llyswen, near Hay on Wye, and educated at Brecon Boys’ Grammar School and Chelsea College of Art.

He feels neither wholly English nor particularly Welsh, with his life’s diversity a social impostor and a cultural chameleon.

His influences: the poems of John Betjeman & Phillip Larkin, the novels of Leslie Thomas, the song lyrics of Sting & Jake Thackray. ... more

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