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The Echoing Green (w/ Rainier Lericolais)

from Miscellaneous / unreleased (1991​-​.​.​.​) by That Summer

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This track was recorded by David Sanson & Rainier Lericolais a long time ago in order to appear on a tribute compilation to William Blake's 'Songs of Innocence/Songs of Experience', which eventually never was released.

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The sun does arise,
And make happy the skies.
The merry bells ring
To welcome the spring.
The skylark and thrush,
The birds of the bush,
Sing louder around,
To the bells’ cheerful sound,
While our sports shall be seen
On the echoing green.

Old John with white hair
Does laugh away care,
Sitting under the oak,
Among the old folk.
They laugh at our play,
And soon they all say:
‘Such, such were the joys
When we all, girls and boys,
In our youth-time were seen
On the echoing green.’

Till the little ones weary
No more can be merry;
The sun does descend,
And our sports have an end.
Round the laps of their mother
Many sisters and brothers,
Like birds in their nest,
Are ready for rest;
And sport no more seen
On the darkening green.

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from Miscellaneous / unreleased (1991​-​.​.​.​), released May 12, 2011
This track contains samples from Béla Bartók's Piano Concerto No.2 (by Géza Anda), Tones On Tail, Joy Division and Jac Berrocal.

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That Summer Bordeaux, France

That Summer are a indie/post- rock/ambient project based in France. It was founded by David Sanson in the early 1990's.

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