GREEN COMPANION OF GILT
Their halyards framed in lennow shades of forty-acre mule
Lie dangling from the clothesline at the Athabaskan school
Their meager transportation is not as fleet as a three-wheeled pram
With slightly fewer horses than the northernmost prairie town
The green companion of gilt
Rolled in like a paper cyclone
Why pay the forgers four months’ wages
When the forests are made entirely of the green companion of gilt?
Those born in age of plenty were scorned for creating fiscal rage
Where there previously hadn’t been any
The green companion of gilt
Eloped with uranium
Quietly yeaned their unsacred by-blow
And bid Godspeed to the churlish highlands
Indeed the manor’d been milked by a stream of esurient dissemblers
Those who remained as stablehands
Weren’t pleased when they weren’t remembered
supported by 6 fans who also own “Green Companion of Gilt”
XTC had their moment in time...this recording extends it...Full of small, tight , quirky songs it juz rolls along. Recommended but maybe only for XTC fans.. cwhitney
supported by 6 fans who also own “Green Companion of Gilt”
It's the Agony Aunts! (aka - The Corner Laughers!) Really, that's all you need to know. If you have not heard them before, start by listening to the album "Greater Miranda" - if it doesn't get you completely hooked on this amazing San Francisco area band, then nothing will Kat Smith