{"id":147,"date":"2016-10-05T02:08:00","date_gmt":"2016-10-05T01:08:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.artsrainbow.com\/trevteasdellyrics\/2016\/10\/05\/duchess-of-the-moors\/"},"modified":"2016-10-05T02:08:00","modified_gmt":"2016-10-05T01:08:00","slug":"duchess-of-the-moors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.artsrainbow.com\/trevteasdellyrics\/2016\/10\/05\/duchess-of-the-moors\/","title":{"rendered":"Duchess of the Moors"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-family: arial\"><b><span>DUCHESS OF THE MOORS<\/span><\/b><br \/>\n<span>\u00a9Trev Teasdel Coventry June 1970<\/span><br \/>\n<span><br \/><\/span><br \/>\n<span>&#8216;Cross the slag heaps and rugged moors i travelled<\/span><br \/>\n<span>Through quarries deep and murky.<\/span><br \/>\n<span>Past deserted stations<\/span><br \/>\n<span>Haunted houses lined my path.<\/span><br \/>\n<span>I came across the Duchess of the Moors.<\/span><br \/>\n<span><br \/><\/span><br \/>\n<span>She came from a tenement row<\/span><br \/>\n<span>Not far from nowhere<\/span><br \/>\n<span>On the side of an ungroomed field<\/span><br \/>\n<span>she let her robes take flight<\/span><br \/>\n<span>as she frolicked like a kitten<\/span><br \/>\n<span>with a ball of wool.<\/span><br \/>\n<span>I watched her,<\/span><br \/>\n<span>The Duchess of the moors<\/span><br \/>\n<span><br \/><\/span><br \/>\n<span>She kissed the wind and it did blush in<\/span><br \/>\n<span>the morning sun.<\/span><br \/>\n<span>The flowers were reaching<\/span><br \/>\n<span>for the sun she brought their way.<\/span><br \/>\n<span>And i was reaching<\/span><br \/>\n<span>for the sun she brought my way.<\/span><br \/>\n<span>I licked my luck and watched<\/span><br \/>\n<span>The Duchess of the Moors.<\/span><br \/>\n<span><br \/><\/span><br \/>\n<span>I chased her through a thicket<\/span><br \/>\n<span>and &#8217;round the quarry lake.<\/span><br \/>\n<span>She sat and bathed her legs.<\/span><br \/>\n<span>I sat beside her and bathed our sorrow.<\/span><br \/>\n<span>We laughed about having nothing to laugh about.<\/span><br \/>\n<span>I just had to shout<\/span><br \/>\n<span>that you are, yes you are&#8230;<\/span><br \/>\n<span>My Duchess of the Moors.<\/span><br \/>\n<span><br \/><\/span><br \/>\n<span>We went into a small cafe<\/span><br \/>\n<span>Now somewhat senile<\/span><br \/>\n<span>and ordered tea and toasted buns.<\/span><br \/>\n<span>The waitress she was senile too<\/span><br \/>\n<span>and dropped her loaded tray.<\/span><br \/>\n<span>And i just had to say<\/span><br \/>\n<span>that you are my Duchess of the Moors.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>DUCHESS OF THE MOORS \u00a9Trev Teasdel Coventry June 1970 &#8216;Cross the slag heaps and rugged moors i travelled Through quarries deep and murky. Past deserted stations Haunted houses lined my path. I came across the Duchess of the Moors. She &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.artsrainbow.com\/trevteasdellyrics\/2016\/10\/05\/duchess-of-the-moors\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsrainbow.com\/trevteasdellyrics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/147"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsrainbow.com\/trevteasdellyrics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsrainbow.com\/trevteasdellyrics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsrainbow.com\/trevteasdellyrics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsrainbow.com\/trevteasdellyrics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=147"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsrainbow.com\/trevteasdellyrics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/147\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsrainbow.com\/trevteasdellyrics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=147"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsrainbow.com\/trevteasdellyrics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=147"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsrainbow.com\/trevteasdellyrics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=147"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}