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Staggers and Jags

by Elvers

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Staggers and Jags, written by Allan J Begg, recorded by Elvers at Soup Studios 2015.

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Here a young man trained in medicine, the balancing of the humours and
Prescribing of tinctures and herbs
But the horrors of the theatre, the agony and viscera appalled him as he felt their hurt

Inhaling the vapours through silk and then cotton and then rags
Inhaling the vapours, raptures and staggers, staggers and jags

For he found it indefensible not to knock them insensible
without they'd scream and they'd beg. Oh what a luxury to achieve peaceful the butchery required for a new wooden leg
So her started out with alcohol on broken little china doll, she died before morning came round
Fearing then an epilogue experimenting on the dog, self medication spared the hound

Inhaling the vapours through silk and then cotton and then rags
Inhaling the vapours, raptures and staggers, staggers and jags

Next came ether and laudanum, either of or both of them, the effects left me weak at the knees
In the blessed days of chloroform, as stupefaction became the norm for surgeons and robbers and thieves

Inhaling the vapours through silk and then cotton and then rags
Inhaling the vapours, raptures and staggers, staggers and jags

Now an overdose of valium, cocaine and lithium runs round by veins and my head
But an unexpected side-effect by experiment did detect was finding myself somewhat dead...

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released October 13, 2017
Allan J Begg - guitar, banjo and vocals
Richard Thrift - upright bass and drums
Stewart Muir - Accordion
Lucy Bugiel - vocals

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Elvers England, UK

Elvers began in South London. Now based in Faversham, Kent.

Gigging has been curtailed, but new music occasionally sneaks out between working on the railway, child-rearing, bike riding, book reading and birdwatching.

I love classic pop songwriting, blues, rock & roll, country and folk. I'm a sucker for some classic chords, a nifty lyric and a sad sad story.

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