Martin Carthy - Palaces of Gold

Taken from the album "An Introduction to Martin Carthy".
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Very different from Martin's usual repertoire but a great song by Leon Rosselson and a riveting performance from Martin

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If the sons of company directors And the judges' private daughters Had to go to school in a slum school Dumped by some joker in a damp back alley Had to herd into classrooms cramped with worry With a view onto slag heaps and stagnant pools Had to file through corridors grey with age And play in a crack-pot concrete cage Buttons would be pressed Rules would be broken Strings would be pulled And magic words spoken Invisible fingers would mould Palaces of gold If prime ministers and advertising executives Royal personages and bank managers' wives Had to live out their lives in dark rooms Blinded by smoke and the foul air of sewers Rot on the walls and rats in the cellars In rows of dumb houses like mouldering tombs Had to bring up their children and watch them grow In a wasteland of dead streets where nothing will grow Buttons would be pressed Rules would be broken Strings would be pulled And magic words spoken Invisible fingers would mould Palaces of gold