"Feastday of St. Francis" genre: Folk
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	This is essentially a folk song that I bulked up ala Yes' Your Move or Cat Steven's Angelsea with electronic drums and zither.
	MP3.com CD: Schedule II; Sampler - buy it! CD: Fields in Fall   Label: Guardian Refuge Credits: D. Chamberlin
	Story Behind the Song This relationship was going nowhere so I hung all of my frustrations on the nearest Saint Day: October 4, the Feastday of St. Francis. I talked about venerable buddhist saints. I threw in my struggle with addiction as well as my grandfather's and Trungpa Rimpoche's, Jesus' admonition to "cut off your hand if it offends ye" and a smart-ass wageer on the chances that she'd "leave me on the Feastday..." I wrote it in one seeting; laid it down on the hard disk with a twelve-string adding Kurweil drum samples and a fine dulcimer to boot. Vocals are rough due to a headcold but I figured it sounded sincere. I nailed them in two takes. Lyrics Feastday of St. Francis once upon a warm october many years ago we slept out beneath the stars the northern lights aglow deep within that cortland orchard on our broomstraw beds wrapped in wornout Pendeltons drawn up o'er our heads out where rabbits run and where the ring-necked pheasant dances we slept out on the feastday of st. francis Dogen was a lunatic he wouldn't join the club he'd come to town to say his piece and beg for drink and grub Trungpa was an alcoholic Grandpa was one too Me I left and took the cure so what's a boy to do? me a priest and so ashamed avoiding sidelong glances legless on the Feastday of St. Francis somethings have to go there's no way to tell be prepared to cut it off and cast it into hell well i don't know but i believe that common courtesy should pretty much preclude the wretched way you treated me Francis fed the raging wolf I fed the lioness gave you songs and medicine, that pretty summer dress, all of that accepted can you tell me what's the chances? you left me on the Feastday of St. Francis

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