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The Bookshop Band

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  1. Doll

From the recording EMERGE, RETURN

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Doll
by The Bookshop Band

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Inspired by Carol Birch’s Orphans of the Carnival.
Ben Please - vocals, acoustic guitar, hand claps. Beth Porter - vocals, cello, hand claps, recorder. Pete Townshend - lap steel, electric guitar, hand claps, Nexus Arp.

Lyrics

When’s a doll, doll, doll
Not a doll, doll, doll?
If you look hard then you will see.
In a hole, hole, hole,
There’s a soul, soul, soul
And it’s reaching out here for me.

So as you pull, pull, pull
At the wool, wool, wool
You will find a life it once lived.
As you draw the straw
You find more, more, more.
It has endless stories to give.

And sawdust, and posters, and pay-bills, and love.

Now there’s a hole, hole, hole
In this doll, doll, doll
And all we can do is stare.
With its insides out,
We can learn about.
It will take some time to repair,
With sawdust, with water, with ashes, with love,
With fire, with gaffa, with soil, with love.


So when’s a doll, doll, doll
Not a doll, doll, doll?
If you look hard then you will see
In a hole, hole, hole
There’s a soul, soul, soul
And it’s reaching out here for me.

Booking: bookshopbandmusic@gmail.com
Press: matthew@scottishfestivalspr.org
Distribution: distro@state51.com
 Band: bookshopbanddmusic@gmail.com

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