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Red Cotton
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Elvis Costello
альбомы: Secret, Profane and Sugarcane
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I'm cutting up her pure white dress That I dyed red, that I dyed red I'm putting scraps in cheap tin lockets What time erases and memory mocks I'll send them over the ocean foam Right into those gentle European homesThe slave ship 'Blessing' slipped from Liverpool Over the waves the Royal Navy rules To go and plunder the Kingdom of Benin Where certain history ends and shame beginsDahomey traders paid powder and shots Line up their prisoners, sell them in lots They packed them tight inside those coffin ships And they took them to the brand new world Of auction blocks and whipsSo I'm cutting up her pure white dress That I dyed red, that I dyed red I'm putting scraps in cheap tin lockets What time erases and memory mocks I'll send them over the ocean foam Right into those gentle European homesWhite is the sheet on your fine linen bed The blood stained red on each cotton thread The merchants gathered at St. George's Hall To unveil the kneeling slave Who is carved upon the wallPicture the scene at the Old Salt House docks They loaded the iron shackles and locks Between a sandstone crocodile, a barrel and a bale You will see the nameless faces They were offering for saleSo I sing the praises of God's glory As a blue cetacean floats in the basement An elephant on the second storey And they queue all day to see him In my American MuseumBut the Lord will judge us with fire and thunder As man continues with all his blunders It's only money, it's only numbers Maybe it is time to put aside these fictitious wondersBut man is feeble, man is puny And if it should divide the union There is no man who should own another When he can't even recognize his sister and his brother
Это интересно:Певец и композитор Элвис Костелло (настоящее имя Диклэн Макманус) родился 25 августа 1954 года в Великобритании.Элвис Костелло начал свою музыкальную карьеру в группе Flip City, которая выступала в лондонских пивных, - в тот период (середина семидесятых) он взял псевдоним Элвис Костелло и заинтересовался фолк-роком. Долгое время ему не удавалось получить контракт на запись: представителей крупных... продолжение
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