Name: We Couldn't Make This Shit Up If We Tried
Duration: P00H04M05S
Description: Ironically ‘We Couldn’t Make this Shit up if we Tried’ is the first fully original effort in this Shandy Ballad collection, a cheerful lyrical stroll around post-Brexit Britain perched atop a staunchly swinging European chord progression.

We Couldn't Make This Shit Up If We Tried

from A Shandy Ballad by Julian Gaskell & his Ragged Trousered Philanthropists

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Ironically ‘We Couldn’t Make this Shit up if we Tried’ is the first fully original effort in this Shandy Ballad collection, a cheerful lyrical stroll around post-Brexit Britain perched atop a staunchly swinging European chord progression.

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Could I dream up a crimson sun as it drops from the western skies?
Could you conceive the bubbling stream
below the summer’s endless sighs?
Could I have cooked up your wildly swirling, ever gazing eyes?
OH NO we couldn’t make this shit up if we tried

Could I conjure up a suitcase of fine wines from Spain or France?
Could you envision pushing your fellow humaines
back in La Manche?
Could we devise a ministry for cutting noses from a face?
OH NO we couldn’t make this shit up if we tried

There’s a new kind of weather that’s landing on the beach
Still we wave the flags and hang the bunting just out of harm's reach
And in the same old rotting hulk we haul again on the same ropes
It’s hard to see a future, it’s hard to have a hope

But when we find around us truth, enlightenment and liberty
Will we believe the storms that raged on us
have somehow ceased to be
When we’ve dismissed their lying, money-serving,
life-destroying creed
We’ll sing we couldn’t have made that shit up if we tried.

credits

from A Shandy Ballad, released November 3, 2023
Recorded in Penryn, October 2023 by
Julian Gaskell - vocal, guitar, accordion, bodhran, bells
Cally Gibson - violin
Thomas Sharpe - piano

Words by J. Gaskell ©2022
Music by Gaskell, Gibson, Sharpe ©2022

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Julian Gaskell UK

Described by angry locals as the bastard son of Waits, Strummer, Reinhardt and Rachmaninov, Julian Gaskell’s music over the last 20 years has followed a wayward path of withering agricultural-folk, klezmer accordion, overly-lyrical punk, gypsy-jazz guitar, tangos, waltzes, rhumbas and skiffled-up boogie-woogie piano. ... more

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