2 posts tagged “robert wyatt”
Slapp Happy with Robert Wyatt. My brother-in-law performed this at the wedding.
Lyrics but nothing else by Blegvad this time. John Greaves did the twisty music and Blegvad provided anagrammatic and palindromatic lyrics to match. (The title, for example, is an anagram of "Erewhon.") This version is sung by Robert Wyatt, who's one of the few who could get away with singing this sort of thing.
(Who?)
We who knew no woe
We who were her hero
(When?),
When we were on her knee
When we knew her
When we were one
(Where?)
Kew. Rhone.
We won renown
(How?)
We were her worker
We won honor enow
When we knew her
When we were one
Where?
Kew. Rhone.
Not a set animal,
Not a set animal, laminates
Laminates a tone of
A set animal,
Animal, laminates
Laminates a tone of sleep
A tone of sleep
Peel's foe, Not a set animal, laminates a tone of sleep.