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Linthwaite Houdini

from I Felt The Valley Lifting by Toby Martin

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lyrics

He’d been planning it all for six months
The publicity
Had all been sent off

I told him it’s not too late to stop it
But he lay under a blanket
To demonstrate the air pockets

Tried to escape but he couldn’t escape
Practiced with pillows down in the basement
The crowd stopped their cheers and started to pray
A mechanical shovel pulled him out of his grave

The big day was finally here
Down on the green
A carnival atmosphere

He said I can see it all so clearly
Tomorrow’s headlines:
‘The Linthwaite Houdini’

Tried to escape but he couldn’t escape
He’d been playing it out in his head like a tape
Parents grabbed their children and turned them away
A mechanical shovel pulled him out of his grave

Down in London they sneer
About the things we do here
And put it in galleries

But all of our hurt
To escape from the dirt
And charging our cavalry

Tried to escape but he couldn’t escape
Parents blocked the eyes of their children too late
500 people could not turn away
A mechanical shovel pulled him out of his grave
Pulled him unconscious out of his grave

A reporter from the Examiner asked him
‘Why do you do it’?
There must be a reason

He answered with rare wisdom
Everybody’s got something
They want to escape from

credits

from I Felt The Valley Lifting, released September 10, 2021
The Colne Valley Players:
MohammadReza Beladi – dammam (drum), ney (flute) and neyanban (Iranian bagpipes)
George Harrington – drum kit
Julia Morgan – tin whistle, flute and backing vocals
Chris Ruffoni – bass, trumpets, piano and backing vocals
Sarah Tym – violin and Northumbrian bagpipes

Special guests:
‘Evil’ Graham Lee – Lap and pedal steel on Strange Fish and Pole Moor
Ada Martin – drone violin on Town Gossip

Engineered and mixed by Colin Elliot at Yellow Arch Studios, Sheffield
Mastered by Duncan Cowell, Sound Mastering, London

Design and cover photo by Cameron Emerson-Elliott

Special thanks to the University of Huddersfield for supporting and funding this recording.

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Toby Martin is a singer-songwriter from Sydney/Gadigal Australia, inspired by British Isles folk music and fuzzed out indie rock.

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