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    "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!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.

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    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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