After All by Chris Dowding

A song for a book about the animals in Spooner Row, South Norfolk, and about their battle with the uprights, but also about what both species need...

After All

The bats swoop across
A silent field
They’ve travelled down from Devon
To Spooner Row

“we all need to have water after all”
“we all need to have water after all”

The newts are called
for a collaborative project
We gather our friends
We stand on each other’s shoulders

“we all need to have water after all”
“we all need to have water after all”

Charlie the Horse
Felt no remorse
it made him feel reckless
it made him feel brave

“we all need to have water after all”
“we all need to have water after all”
“we all need to have water after all”
“we all need to have water after all”

Owl flies by
in the evening sky
He shreds the papers
He builds their nest

“we all need to have water after all”
“we all need to have water after all”
“we all need to have water after all”
“we all need to have water after all”

A Site of Special Scientific Interest
endangered flora and fauna
an electric spring
a magical place

The seasons turn around
The long hot days of Summer
Fade into Autumn
Then onto Winter

Tracklist

1.	After All	7:28

Credits

released April 17, 2019

This song was written for Lindsay Dowding's book, 'CHARLIE the HORSE, OWL and the Planning Application, published by Smokehouse Press in April 2019.

The book is available from:

www.smokehousepress.co.uk/charlie.htm

Chris Dowding - vocals, piano, trumpet

Recorded by Jon Clayton at OneCat Studio, London in December 2018, and mixed by Jon Clayton and Chris Dowding in February 2019. Artwork by Chris Dowding and Oliver Payne.

www.chris-dowding.co.uk

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