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Silesian Murder Ballad

from Holy Drinker by Robert Sunday

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5.Reminded of his past, Andreas checks his papers and realises he has no residence permit after having been officially expelled from France. He remembers how he had come from Polish Silesia to work in the mines, subletting a room from a Polish couple, and falling in love with the wife. Defending her from a murderous assault by her husband he commits murder himself and is imprisoned for two years. The wife was Caroline.
Thereafter, believing his recent good luck is at en end and no more miracles due, he submits to the bottle, returns to the bridges.

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As a child he had craved liberty
He was restless and longed to be free
And he always dreamed of far off places
Romance, riches, and sweet embraces
And he saw in the paper one day
A job in a far away place
And right then he could think of nothing finer
Than the life of a coal miner

So it's off to the mines of Quebecque
With a sense of elation and dread
And he lodged with a miner and his fair young bride
Compatriots looking for a new life
Oh the wife with her eyes emerald green
She provoked in him such sympathy
That all social contracts became severed
They called it love, and they fell together

One night he came back from the bar
And he could hear her screams from afar
And he found her very close to death
With her husband's hands around her neck
So he's picked up a butchering knife
And he's stuck it right into his side
And he struck again and the husband fell
And he set foot upon the road to hell

He got two years in prison for that
He was expelled and told never come back
Now he's here half cut with no residence permit
Drinking and thinking that he don't deserve it
All those memories have lead him to this
This stinking of Pernod and piss
That gutted miner on his mind
'Cos his wife was Caroline

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from Holy Drinker, released September 4, 2020

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Robert Sunday London, UK

Robert Sunday is a solo acoustic singer-songwriter who combines elements of traditional folk,americana,poetry,and cinematic allusions.He played his first gig at Cecil Sharp House in March 2011 on the release of his debut EP 'Butterfly Hairslide' on the Rif Mountain label.Since then he has played regularly in London.This summer saw the release of his long awaited second EP 'Kith And Kin'. ... more

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