Friday [poem set to music]
Channel: tobydarling
Date: 2024-02-17

Friday

Cm
First cycle of the year,
Gm
Sad flat tyres and rusty chain
Cm
Biddy-blocked all through town
Gm
Down Kingsgate, knees wracked with pain

Eb 
The Itchen’s full, the meadows sodden
Eb/D
The Tonbridge’s open after a year’s repair
Eb/C
The Win Co Fo pitches are all mud-ridden
Bb
A lamentation of swans drift down towards the weir


Cm
The College is empty, it’s Lent half-term
Gm
But Projects is buzzing with Althea and Donna
A
We’ve got Exodus echoing in our ears
Gm
From Bob Marley yesterday at the cinema

Bb Fm
I’m smoking Camels brought from Basle
Eb Bb
Drinking my second flat white
Cm 
Two huge poodles are sitting outside
Gm
I’m inside with ‘Stand up for your Rights’

Cm
Luna’s on speed, she won’t sit still
Bb
Pawing robins on my PC screen
Cm
My chicken pie is as dry as The Gobi
Bb
I make another coffee, hide away unseen

Cm Dm Fm Cm
I dream of Russia, anywhere but here
Fm D Bb
Give me vodka, cheap fags, Cossack’s dance
Cm Dm
Живы бу́дем — не помрём*
Fm Cm D Cm Gm
Lake Baikul is calling: Advance! Advance!



*Pronunciation: ZHYvy BUdem ni pamRYOM, Translation: We will be alive, we won’t die




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