JUST BEFORE DAWN
©Trev Teasdel Coventry 1970
(Poem Rural City verse Feb 70 / Just before Dawn poem March 1970)
(Poem Rural City verse Feb 70 / Just before Dawn poem March 1970)
– Recorded on Cassette Player 1979
Breeze blowing through the trees,
Squirrels squatting on their knees
Breeze blowing through the trees,
Squirrels squatting on their knees
Trying not to freeze, in amongst the trees
Searching for acorns
Just before dawn – Just before Dawn
Just before Dawn – Just before dawn
And the wind blows free, of the ripples of the city
Just before dawn, Just before dawn
Just before dawn, Just before dawn.
Then silence vomits an almighty roar,
A thousand vehicles and maybe more
Stampede the main, arterial lanes
To face their daily stresses and strains.
And engines sing to morning faces
Bustling off to their work places.
Oh, Oh,City light – Oh, oh, City light.
Refresh your lungs in the morning smog.
Find a patch of grass to walk your dog.
Wander by in an urban dream,
‘long the banks of a traffic stream.
Black birds nesting in the branches
of the local factories.
Oh oh City light – oh oh City light
Listen to cockcrow in the clock tower
Announcing the arrival of another rush hour,
(another rush hour, another rush hour.)
Oh ,oh, City light – Oh, oh, City light.
Featured on my album Songs from the Coventry Underground, Gnome Label, 2007
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This began as a series of poems and lyrics written while working at the GEC, Stoke in Coventry 1970. I was trying to write lyrics towards a proposed pop concept album (even though I didn’t have a recording contract!), similar to the Moody Blues Days of Future Passed. I probably had more lyrics than that album but I didn’t play guitar at that stage, so the music never got done. In the late 70’s I composed afast clawpicking piece and combined elements of the poems and lyrics into this song.
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This is an extended version of Just Before Dawn with extra lyrics.