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The Old Whim​-​Horse

from Endurance by Project Blackbird

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Lyrics are extracts of the poem by Edward Dyson.

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He’s an old grey horse, with his head bowed sadly, / And with dim old eyes and a queer roll aft, / With the off-fore sprung and the hind screwed badly / And he bears all over the brands of graft; / And he lifts his head from the grass to wonder / Why by night and day now the whim is still, / Why the silence is, and the stampers’ thunder / Sounds forth no more from the shattered mill. / In that whim he worked when the night-winds bellowed / On the riven summit of Giant’s Hand, / And by day when prodigal Spring had yellowed / All the wide, long sweep of enchanted land.... // But the whim stands still, and the wheeling swallow / In the silent shaft hangs her home of clay, / And the lizards flirt and the swift snakes follow / O’er the grass-grown brace in the summer day; / And the corn springs high in the cracks and corners / Of the forge, and down where the timber lies; / And the crows are perched like a band of mourners / On the broken hut on the Hermit’s Rise. / All the hands have gone, for the rich reef paid out, / And the company waits till the calls come in; / But the old grey horse, like the claim, is played out, / And no market’s near for his bones and skin.... // He is limping still round the old, old track. / Now he pricks his ears, with a neigh replying / To a call unspoken, with eyes aglow, / And he sways and sinks in the circle, dying; / From the ring no more will the grey horse go. / In a gully green, where a dam lies gleaming, / And the bush creeps back on a worked-out claim, / And the sleepy crows in the sun sit dreaming / On the timbers grey and a charred hut frame, / Where the legs slant down, and the hare is squatting / In the high rank grass by the dried-up course, / Nigh a shattered drum and a king-post rotting / Are the bleaching bones of the old grey horse. (Here comes a light – it’s glowing)

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from Endurance, released August 10, 2018
Music: Read/Johansen - Additional lyrics: Nagel

MING NAGEL – Vocals / THURE GADE JOHANSEN – Guitars / JON READ – Bass Guitar, Keyboards, Piano, Trumpet / STYX – Drums / HARI TRIVEDI - Tabla

The complete version of “The Old Whim-Horse” is published in Bush Songs, Ballads, and Other Verse – a collection selected by Douglas Stewart and Nancy Keesing, and printed by The Discovery Press in Penrith in 1967.

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The "extraordinary" Project Blackbird, as BBC's Tom Robinson has called them, offer an atmospheric and genre-fluid listening experience that draws equally upon intellect and emotion. "Imagine a party at Ronnie Scott’s," one fan suggests, "where Sade, Björk, Jeff Beck, and David Byrne meet Portishead and then go for a late night curry to exchange ideas…sublime”. ... more

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