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Recorded January 2020 at Woodbine Street Studios. Produced by John Rivers with Eddy Hewitt as assistant engineer.

Featuring:
Pete Churchill: accordion/backing vocals
Ben Muirhead: double bass
Beth Bellis: viola

Written by William William Rodgers

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scarf weather again
I left a bag of green on a memorial bench
perched high up on the cliffside, grey-faced and lonely
in the arsehole of the year
all of the place was barred against intruders
as I was getting ready to pack up my suitcase
I went down to the strand to scratch my initials
you came like a wave, washed them away
and life would never be the same
not since I'd caught the eye of your mermaid tattoo
just below the collarbone, its tail out of view
borne on a wave
nude Aphrodite is sniffing at the breeze
cos she's seen better days and swum better harbours
in the back of elsewhere
we danced unawares to Sonny and Cher
til the barman saw us and called last orders
I wrote postcards by night, left them out to yellow
you opened up the door, let in the sea
and life would never be the same
nor the long hereafter ever so plain
as when I returned your rap at the pane
and I seem to recall
the gleam of an anchor still fresh from the forge
that swam into view on a mermaid tattoo

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from William William Rodgers Sings the Yellow Pages, released April 15, 2022

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