"the White horse Hotel" genre: AAA/Adult Alternative
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	When the Byrds released their first album "Mr Tambourine Man", there was a liner note mentioning how odd it was that people were on the dance floor gyrating to a song about a Welsh mining disaster ("the Bells of Rhymney"). This song presents the same irony. It's fun and upbeat. You could dance to it. The topical material is tragic. Loosely based on the demise of Welsh poet Dylan Thomas, the drunken darling of the beat era. Thomas is said to have come into the Chelsea Hotel on his last day (after a particularly heavy binge at New York City's White Horse Tavern) exclaiming "I've had 18 straight whiskeys - I think that's a record!". He died of alcohol poisoning shortly thereafter. Give infectious irony a shot. Give this a listen. Dance, maybe, and wonder why. Excellent tunesmithing from Bristol, UK songwriter Simon Read.
	Credits: W/M (c) Simon Read, Arranged and performed by David Scott Smith
	Lyrics The White Horse Hotel 1. He slept with the bottles Empty on the floor A blanket of blank pages From the books he’d torn The wallpaper peeling in that cold hotel room Did he know that the end would come so soon? Chorus: We read all his letters And we bought all the books And society photos That the newspapers took He sold everything That there was to sell But he died drinking whiskey In the White Horse Hotel 2. He once was a hero Of the Common Man A drunken Messiah Spokesman for the damned When the nightmares started The words dissapeared All he could do Was drink away his fears Chorus 3. The churchyard, the village The house where he once lived All sacred to pilgrims Chasing down the myth They sell out of everything They call souvenirs And the legend Grows old beyond its years Chorus (c)2001 Simon Read

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