{"id":75,"date":"2016-10-05T06:20:00","date_gmt":"2016-10-05T05:20:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.artsrainbow.com\/trevteasdellyrics\/2016\/10\/05\/just-before-dawn\/"},"modified":"2016-10-05T06:20:00","modified_gmt":"2016-10-05T05:20:00","slug":"just-before-dawn","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.artsrainbow.com\/trevteasdellyrics\/2016\/10\/05\/just-before-dawn\/","title":{"rendered":"Just Before Dawn"},"content":{"rendered":"
\nJUST BEFORE DAWN<\/span><\/b><\/div>\n
\n \u00a9Trev Teasdel Coventry 1970<\/span>
\n(Poem Rural City verse Feb 70 \/ Just before Dawn poem March 1970)<\/span><\/span><\/div>\n
\n– Recorded on Cassette Player 1979<\/span><\/div>\n
\n
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\nBreeze blowing through the trees,<\/span><\/div>\n
\nSquirrels squatting on their knees<\/span><\/div>\n
\nBreeze blowing through the trees,<\/span><\/div>\n
\nSquirrels squatting on their knees<\/span><\/div>\n
\nTrying not to freeze, in amongst the trees<\/span><\/div>\n
\nSearching for acorns<\/span><\/div>\n
\nJust before dawn – Just before Dawn<\/span><\/div>\n
\nJust before Dawn – Just before dawn<\/span><\/div>\n
\nAnd the wind blows free, of the ripples of the city<\/span><\/div>\n
\nJust before dawn, Just before dawn<\/span><\/div>\n
\nJust before dawn, Just before dawn.<\/span><\/div>\n
\n
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\nThen silence vomits an almighty roar,<\/span><\/div>\n
\nA thousand vehicles and maybe more<\/span><\/div>\n
\nStampede the main, arterial lanes<\/span><\/div>\n
\nTo face their daily stresses and strains.<\/span><\/div>\n
\nAnd engines sing to morning faces<\/span><\/div>\n
\nBustling off to their work places.<\/span><\/div>\n
\n
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\nOh, Oh,City light – Oh, oh, City light.<\/span><\/i><\/div>\n
\n
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\nRefresh your lungs in the morning smog.<\/span><\/div>\n
\nFind a patch of grass to walk your dog.<\/span><\/div>\n
\nWander by in an urban dream,<\/span><\/div>\n
\n‘long the banks of a traffic stream.<\/span><\/div>\n
\nBlack birds nesting in the branches<\/span><\/div>\n
\nof the local factories.<\/span><\/div>\n
\n
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\nOh oh City light – oh oh City light<\/span><\/i><\/div>\n
\n
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\nListen to cockcrow in the clock tower<\/span><\/div>\n
\nAnnouncing the arrival of another rush hour,<\/span><\/div>\n
\n(another rush hour, another rush hour.)<\/span><\/div>\n
\n
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\nOh ,oh, City light – Oh, oh, City light.<\/span><\/i>
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\n<\/span><\/p>\n
\nFeatured on my album Songs from the Coventry Underground, Gnome Label, 2007<\/span><\/div>\n
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\n<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n
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\n……………..<\/p>\n

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.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Just Before Dawn – Trev Teasdel<\/a> from Trev Teasdel<\/a> on Vimeo<\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n


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This is an extended version of Just Before Dawn with extra lyrics.<\/span><\/div>\n

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