BENEATH THE PHAEIC SKY
©Trev Teasdel Coventry March 1971
The Black Knight’s spectre
Prowls the battlements.
Beneath the phaeic sky,
Sounds his sad lament.
The phantom pillion rider groans,
as he leaps a lazing stile.
The faceless henchman totes his gun,
and points it with beguile.
And the shivers of my uncertainty
Cloud my mind so I can’t see.
The moon has closed her eyes,
to the surreptitious hand of fate.
The groined passageway becomes alive,
Ornamental armoury vibrates.
The trees they are approaching now
Like Birnam Wood on old McBeth.
The assassin’s blade drips with blood,
There’s a stench of cobwebbed death.
And the shivers of my uncertainty
Cloud my mind so I can’t see.
Beelzebub whets his fangs,
and summons the firedrake.
As a prudent Aquila swoops in,
along the monsters wake.
The unsuspecting demon squirms,
with the stab of a venom tongue.
And the shivers of my uncertainty
Cloud my mind so I can’t see.
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In 1970 Coventry drummer Steve Harrison as me to write some lyrics for his band The Mick Green Blues Band, which I did and then a new band Nack ed en with Loz Netto -later of Sniff and the Tears and John Bradbury – later of the Specials. In 1971,the Mick Green Blues Band had reformed as Railroad with slightly altered line up. The practiced in the theatre of the Coventry Arts Umbrella club and asked me to write some lyrics and maybe try out vocals. I borrowed a PA system and tried it out. I didn’t get in the band and they split up again before any gigs but this is one of the lyrics i wrote for them at that stage.
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In 1970 Coventry drummer Steve Harrison as me to write some lyrics for his band The Mick Green Blues Band, which I did and then a new band Nack ed en with Loz Netto -later of Sniff and the Tears and John Bradbury – later of the Specials. In 1971,the Mick Green Blues Band had reformed as Railroad with slightly altered line up. The practiced in the theatre of the Coventry Arts Umbrella club and asked me to write some lyrics and maybe try out vocals. I borrowed a PA system and tried it out. I didn’t get in the band and they split up again before any gigs but this is one of the lyrics i wrote for them at that stage.