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Saturday Evening, One Eastertide

from Geneva's Shore by Poke O'Swedgers

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A strange song, based on a story told to Dave by a Russian friend. Imagine, waiting in a dark church on Holy Saturday, waiting to hear the words “Христос воскрес!” - "Christ is Risen"; waiting for the priest to enter with the lighted candle; waiting to know that it's all fine, that our sins are forgiven.

The melody for this song was originally written by the genius of Bjørn Frengstad, intended for the piano. You can hear a piano version of the song played by The Sedatives here: the-sedatives.bandcamp.com/track/saturday-evening-one-eastertide-single-version. But we think it also works with an echoey distorted guitar, too!

lyrics

She had raven hair. She had speedwell eyes.
She pierced my heart. Maybe she could analyse
what just happened to me.

She had speedwell eyes. She had raven hair.
Her smile lit her face like a kerosene flare
on a smoking summer eve.

Three days one summer. Three days of time
in eccentric orbit and walking and rhyme.
She told me how it seemed to bide in the dark
one Saturday evening of Eastertide

How the world holds its breath at the shock of God’s death
and how we all are redeemed.
Surprisingly forgiven, for, truly
Christ is risen.

She had corvin hair and forget-me-not eyes
and nonchalantly waved her hand and swept away the flies
from my mind and her plate of fruit.

Lyric © David Banks 2015: Music © Bjørn Frengstad 2015

credits

from Geneva's Shore, released August 20, 2021
Kev McInally - vocal
Dave Banks - Guitar

Mixed and mastered by Steve Swallow

Lyric © David Banks 2015: Music © Bjørn Frengstad 2015

ISRC: UK-DVB-21-00007

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Poke O'Swedgers Chesterfield, UK

Poke O'Swedgers are Kev and Dave. Kev sings beautifully. Dave fumbles around with guitar. They write their own rhapsodies - delicate folk tales of impossible romance, computer programming and quantum physics. Their songs have a slight Scottish tang.

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