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before chronological swiss clockery
and maniacal lunar mockery
and the great gregorian travesty
of cock-eyed calendar count

the waxing and the waning moon
and the turning of the tides avowed
without eldritch confirmation
when to plant and when to plough

to birth and harvest, when at last
festival fires come back some how
the clockwork minds chicanery
shall fade dwindling without sound

then here come the morris men
faces blacked and bells a-jingle
here come the morris men
hickory clack crack the past comes back sing
here come the morris men
here come the morris men
oh here come the morris men
hickory clack crack the past comes back
the past comes back

too boorish and too soon
or are you fashionably late again
living life on borrowed time
do you ken the interest you’ve paid

your index driven dividends
are phantoms in the lie you made
that daisy petal counting
was just some childish game

and now your clock speed greed commands
a rendered meaningless charade
‘cause coy autumnal trees don’t care
how many dragons you have slain

then here come the morris men
faces blacked and bells a-jingle
here come the morris men
hickory clack crack the past comes back sing
here come the morris men
here come the morris men
oh here come the morris men
hickory clack crack the past comes back
the past comes back

© tim o’connor 2014

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from Returning to the Sea, released November 19, 2014

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Tim O'Connor Hull, UK

Tim O'Connor is an English Folk/Rock songwriter based in Yorkshire, UK, Performing & recording since the late Seventies, Tim has released a large catalogue of albums, 39 to date, available on his record label, Uilleand Music.

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cowfisH, from 1992 onwards.

The Ant Farm Collective, from 2014-2017.

Tim O’Connor & the Poachers 2018-
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