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The Weatherman

from Latin Quarter: Bare Bones by Steve Skaith

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Steve Skaith (voice and guitars.)
Steve Jeffries (keyboards, percussion and backing vocals)
Mary Carewe (backing vocals)

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The Weatherman
(Skaith/Jones)

Blind Joe Death had been transfigured
We’d hung the hangman’s daughter high
In the rolling paper silence
We thought in step like passers by
From Cyfartha to Siddharta to King Arthur’s saintly knights
We’d bring the warring tribes together
And set a broken world to rights

But hoping that Frodo got to Mordor
No longer seemed appropriate
As Chinese printed ‘Gotha Programmes’
Took the place of opiates
From your backside to the Bogside
For Upper Clyde and Soledad
We carried bed sheet dyed red banners
And poured in every hope that we had

Jerusalem is shattered
Evacuate the towers
There’s a hurricane approaching
The weatherman predicted showers.

If A is Allende, A’s Angola
And a taste of victory
Getting even, getting closer
With Franco down and Lisbon free
From the first cut, to the last round
We met and argued, marched and planned
Oh who would guess we’d soon be fewer
When everywhere was garage land

Jerusalem is shattered
Evacuate the towers
There’s a hurricane approaching
The weatherman predicted showers

Oh, you can’t get a pin between the splinters
With the broad church on its knees
In these cold, bleak mid-winters
The south is blue and the rest can freeze
From the Medway to the west way
Easy money they recite
There’s some would share
But all’s divided
Where 'The Sun' would cast no light

Jerusalem is shattered
Evacuate the towers
There’s a hurricane approaching
The weatherman predicted showers

Chain the rain dogs to the gatepost
Drag your urchin kids inside
Press the play, turn up the volume
Hope the good Lord will provide
From the Tay Bridge, to the Tamar
The blame is hers, the fault is ours
At least a Hurricane approaching, the weatherman predicted showers
At least a Hurricane approaching, the weatherman predicted showers

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from Latin Quarter: Bare Bones, released April 17, 2015
Arranged by Steve Skaith and Steve Jeffries.
Produced, Mixed and Mastered by Steve Jeffries.

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Steve Skaith London, UK

Steve Skaith was the singer and writer with the UK band Latin Quarter‚ best known for its 1986 single 'Radio Africa'.. The band made several albums and continued touring throughout Europe until 1998. - The idea for this album was to take some old LQ songs back to the state when they were first written and demoed: just a guitar, a voice, a bit of harmony, a touch of keyboard colour and hey presto! ... more

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