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the sugarspell

from a quiet house by julie murphy

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  • Compact Disc (CD) + Digital Album

    New songs by Julie Murphy, on voice and piano. Accompanied on harp and trombone by Ceri Owen Jones.

    The cover is a matt gatefold card CD, like an mini old fashioned LP. The first 300 are signed by Julie Murphy.

    "I think I can hear the musical DNA of Nico, Lal Waterson & PJ Harvey’s White Chalk in @juliemurphysong’s beautiful 2012 album A Quiet House. Anyway, whatever it is, I’m absolutely smitten."
    PETE PAPHIDES

    "Julie murphy is a towering talent, both in traditional music and as a singer-songwriter" Dafydd Goff, The Guardian

    "You'll be hard pressed to find anything more moving, plaintive or intuitive, from any era or genre" Adam Walton BBC Radio Wales

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the sugarspell

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the sugarspell fell over the people
here's the door, here's the house, here's the steeple

bow down bow down to money
sweeter than honey

we don't make things now
but we can borrow

have now,
your children pay tomorrow

and the bland rise in a land of paper
fill in the form, fill in the form and come back later

you say you come in peace
you are a liar

you watch your gold and silver
climbing higher

and another young boy dies
to keep you in power

you are deaf to his cries in your ivory tower

and the sugarspell fell over the people
here's the door, here's the house, here's the steeple

we don't make things now
but we can borrow

have now,
our children pay tomorrow, tomorrow, tomorrow

but the fool is prince
in a land of beauty

the fool is prince
in a land of love

fool is prince
in a land of beauty

the small birds sing
a child is king
the small birds sing
a child

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from a quiet house, released May 1, 2012
words and music by julie murphy

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julie murphy Swansea, UK

Julie Murphy is a singer songwriter and member of Welsh folk innovators fernhill. She writes songs at the piano at home in the Welsh countryside. Her fourth solo album 'Every bird that flies' is available now

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