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Ring out (Lord Alfred Tennyson)

from Ghost Hunter / Dark reggae by MOURNFUL SKANK

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Freely adapted from Ring out (Lord Alfred Tennyson)

Wild bells, to the wild sky,
flying cloud, frosty light:
The year is dying in the night;
then let him die...
The old rings in the new,
(Ring) happy bells, across the snow:
The year is going, let him go;
The false rings in the true.

The grief that saps the mind
(Ring in) we see no more;
a slowly dying cause,
nobler modes of life,
with sweeter manners, purer laws.

The want, the care, the sin,
The faithless coldness of the times;
ring out my mournful rhymes
But ring the fuller minstrel in.
False pride in place and blood,
civic slander and the spite;
the love of truth and right,
the common love of good.

Old shapes of foul disease;
narrowing lust of gold;
(Ring out) thousand wars of old,
thousand years of peace.
(Ring in) Valiant man and free,
larger heart, kindlier hand;
the darkness of the land,
(Ring in) the Christ that is to be.

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from Ghost Hunter / Dark reggae, released December 15, 2016

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Mournful Skank is an experimental project exploring sad reggae, acoustic dark dub, hybrid skank ;)

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My music is influenced by William Blake, les Béru, Coil, the Gladiators, Horace Andy, Dead Combo, Portishead, Tom Waits, Castaneda. Ainsi parlait Zarathoustra.
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