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14 Albion Street

by Jacob & Drinkwater

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The famous Albion will always be inextricably linked with English history.. its rooms resounding with the echos of lords, poets, artists, kings, suffragettes...

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14 Albion Street

I fear my men will come to harm
Seen the old moon in the new moons arm
Sir Patrick he went home
Called Lord Franklin on the phone
At 14 Albion Street

I’m going where the whale fishes blow
Out in the cold wind and snow
While Nelson makes his plans
To sink the Franco- Spanish fleet
At 14 Albion street

Find me a flowering shrub
All the maids went rub a dub dub
Lord Byron’s in the tub
With Shelley and the poet Keats
At 14 Albion Street

Fanny’s in the drawing room again
With Charlotte , Emily and Jane
Leonard and Virginia
Held a Hogarth meet and greet
At 14 Albion Street

Dorothy already had form
For dressing in a man’s uniform
With Mary and Emmeline
Going over the balance sheet
At 14 Albion Street

You may think I’m pulling your leg
But Charlie with Wilkie and Augustus Egg
They come here after hours
He sits there in his favourite seat
At 14 Albion Street

The Albion club was quite the scene
Elliott , Lewis and Tolkien
That was before the war
When everyone was more upbeat
At 14 Albion Street

Elgar was in for supper last night
Tallis plays our Steinway upright
My dear William Byrd
Is often singing for his meat
At 14 Albion Street

Turner decorated this wall
While Dee spoke with Angels in the hall
The butler stretched his eyes
When gold emerged from the heat
At 14 Albion Street

Newton was the apple of her eye
When Ada Lovelace would come by
These Scientific kicks
Isaac they’re so hard to beat
At 14 Albion Street

Aemelia Lanyer’s on the stairs
Sweet William’s at his morning prayers
John Wesley’s by the fire
His pony sleeping by his feet
At 14 Albion Street

Then there was old Tom More
Left his hair shirt hanging by the door
He comes for holy week
Always takes the Becket suite
At 14 Albion Street

Robin Hood he lived here as a child
He was never raised out in the wild
He was born in room 16
Wrapped up in a green silk sheet
At 14 Albion Street

Hermann brought a flowering shrub
All the way from the Teuteborg wood
From high Germany
With the Roman army in retreat
To 14 Albion Street

Alfred’s diet was strict and harsh
When he came down from Athelney marsh
He said I’m going to raise the fyrds
Get this Viking army beat
At 14 Albion street

King John he stopped in on his way
Down to Runnymede one day
Thanks for the ale and cheer
He signed the guestbook nice and neat
At 14 Albion Street

Boudicca came by here in the spring
With Hengist and Horsa and a cornish king
His name was Constantine
It’s written on this till receipt
At 14 Albion Street

Ah but Caesar he soon made hay
As the sun set over Pegwell Bay
Bring me my finest stead!
There’s someone that I’d like to meet
At 14 Albion Street

You’d think they’d put a blue plaque on the wall
It is a listed building after all
Ah but I just sweep the floors
Always courteous and discreet
At 14 Albion Street

credits

released February 5, 2021
Tobias: guitar, vocal
Lukas: bass, vocal

Recorded in Bydgoszcz and Stroud
Mixed by Lukas Drinkwater at Polyphonic Recording.
Written by Tobias ben Jacob

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Jacob & Drinkwater London, UK

On tour in UK April/May '22.

Jacob & Drinkwater have been called ‘stand out new Folk’ by BBC6 Music and ‘inventive and thrilling’ by R2 Magazine. Jacob's sweeping vocals never fail to captivate, delivering many a spine-tingling moment; the fluidity and precision of his finger-picking underpinned by Drinkwater's nimbly rhythmic double bass; the layers of depth a perfect counterfoil. ... more

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