11th hour hail mary. I didn't have time to flesh out what I started with so I churned one out on the second string downstairs guitar (she's my beater...the songwritin' guitar) with my handheld recorder to keep myself in the round. Really need to change ol' Bessie's strings and get her set up...she kinda sounds like ass.
Some dude goes to fight in the Napoleonic wars and leaves his girl, she waits, he doesn't come back, he dies, she dies, now they dance as ghosts on the white cliffs of Dover.
lyrics
Cross the blue ocean she waits while she dances in clover
Left my girl there, the wind blowing her hair there at Dover
Napolean waits, and we seizing our fates move to greet him
Crossing the channel and onward to battle entreat them
Our swords at our side and us brimming with pride we set sail there
My darling behind, but fresh in my mind, say a prayer
Cerulean sea, she’ll go dancing with me in the moonlight
Nothing undone all the wars that we’ve won here at midnight
Spinning all time in the glorious white here in clover
Though we be dead we’re still losing our heads here at Dover
(Yes, I totally changed the last two lines of the lyric after the recording and upload. I wrote this shit, I can change it if I wanna.)
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