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Mockingbird recalls the nursery rhyme ‘Hush Little Baby’ and songs from the Mother Goose’s Melody collection. This nursery rhyme traditionally catalogues the rewards promised to young children for keeping quiet. Here, further messages of hypocrisy and threat are examined under the feminist lens. This is the oldest song on the EP, written at the age of fourteen for Georgia's childhood friend and first bandmate, Eloise.

lyrics

Mockingbird

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Hush my darling, don't you say a word.
The Devil isn't listening.
For in has flown his Sunday silver bird,
and I can't stop him singing.

I was a candle dove.
Sent to save,
from fires above.

Sing in your forbidden tongues,
but stop before the woodsman comes.
He'll cut your laurel and your stolen Gods away.
He'll say pot, kettle, are you black?
And turn the feathers on your back,
and make you sing for sixpence you have yet to pay.

Hush my darling, pray you pay no heed.
The magpie's only whistling.
For she did steal that diamond for a star,
and I can't stop it glistening.

I was a sun so bright.
Sent to count the stars at night.

One for sorrow,
two for mirth.
Stop before you count the earth.
Why else do you think was Jacob's fiery angel slain?

She swept to save his burning heart,
but scattered when the ash bled dark,
and cast a ring of roses round
the lovers' flame.

Hush my darling, rest your head-strong hands.
The ring won't stop them shaking.
For it has shattered to a looking glass, and I can't stop it breaking.

Lyrics by Georgia Harris

credits

from Jorinde and Joringel, released July 29, 2021
Music: Georgia Harris, Rich Bond

Lyrics: Georgia Harris

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Recording and production


Producer: Rich Bond (Gift Horse, small dogs, Venus Demilo)

Recording engineer: Rich Bond

Mix engineer: Rich Bond

Mastering engineer: Jim Spencer at EVE Mastering

Mixed at Wise Tree Studios, Liverpool

Recorded at Home Farm Northampton, Poppies Cornwall and Wise Tree Studios, Liverpool

Mastered at EVE Recording Studios, Stockport (EVE Mastering)

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Instruments


Vocals: Georgia Harris

Piano: Georgia Harris

Bowed electric guitar: Rich Bond

Effects processing: Rich Bond

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Loris and the Lion Liverpool, UK

Loris and the Lion weave gentle tales of joy and loss; a patchwork of sonic delights built by (wo)man and machine to soothe the soul and feed the heart.

A duo from Liverpool, navigating life together accompanied by: fairytales; folktales; lifetales.

Calling to mind the sounds and spirit of Joanna Newsom, Tori Amos and Jesca Hoop. ... more

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