The Singing Grass

by Pat Orchard

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Pat Orchard has toured extensively in Europe and played many of the major festivals and venues, including Montreux Jazz Festival, Reading, Glastonbury and Phoenix. He has toured with artists as diversified as Annie Lennox, Johnny Cash, Emerson Lake and Palmer, Richard Thompson, Spiritualized, John Martyn, Bert Jansch, and Randy Crawford - a testament to how his music crosses over the borders of so many styles of music.

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The Singing Grass

I dreamed I was standing alone on the plain
Raising my face to the African rain
Fragrant the earth warm by the sun
Hearing the sansa, a piano played by thumb
And I’m back in the Singing Grass
Yes I’m back in the Singing Grass

But the drums are talking about a storm to come
There's a man called slim, hims killing to be done
And all the pin-stripped vultures circle ahead
The first-world bankers claw back their debt
Pick the flesh from the bones on the Singing Grass.

And I dreamt
I was running.
Like the Wilderbeast
Dreamt I was running
Through the famine and disease
Hold my hand I am dying.
Things are black so black in the Singing Grass

I dreamed I was standing alone on the plain
Raising my face to the African rain.

credits

released September 18, 2019
Guitar / Keys and Vocals - Pat Orchard
Bass - Rob Lindsay
Drums/Percussion Sam Pule

Mastered by Steve Kitch Mastering

Photo by Wynand Uys on Unsplash

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Pat Orchard England, UK

Newborn. Africa. Child. Rebelled.
Exmouth. School. Fool. Expelled.

Homeless. Drifter. Dole. Broke.
Guitar. Busker. Dreamer. Hope.

Support. Headline. MTV.
Touted. Guest list. VIP.

No Deal - Big Deal. Life's a Song.
My Voice. My Choice. Moving On.

Goodbye Smoke. Westward Bound.
Devon. Heaven. Ancient Ground.

Builder. Home. Catherine. Wife.
Fern. Dylan. Father. Life ... more

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