Name: The Ballad of Harry Frantz
Duration: P00H07M06S
Description: Arrived in Tangier, Morocco on May 30th at 8 P.M.

The Ballad of Harry Frantz

from 1904 by The Anchorites

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Arrived in Tangier, Morocco on May 30th at 8 P.M.

lyrics

Verse 1
Greenfield seems so far away
From this God-forsaken land
Far from that old and feeble farm
And the man with the white gloved hands

The Moroccan sun is swimming down
And shattering through my soul
The city’s eyes are open wide
And they just may swallow me whole

Chorus
I wish you could’ve been a ghost
I wish I didn’t have to see
You hanging down like wind chimes
From daddy’s hollow tree

Verse 2
Your flowers are pinned up on my wall
But not your little boy in blue
Henry kept him locked away
The same place he kept you

Even now in these moonlit hours
With my calabash burning low
I see your epitaph in the stars
In the haze it weeps and glows

Part 2
I wonder if they’re scared
Do they think we pose a threat?
Well even if we do
We’re not through with them yet

Well mother hear me now
And brother hold me tight
It’s clear against the dark
But I’m still shaking through the nights

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from 1904, released August 14, 2020
Lyrics by John Sutphin, music for part one by Sutphin and part two by Jack Gordon

- John Sutphin (lead vocals, guitars, synthesizers)
- Jack Galloway (piano/keyboards)
- Jack Gordon (bass, additional percussion)
- Aidan Ritchie (drums, additional percussion)
- Gwendolyn Grey (violin)
- Léa Schenk (viola)
- Joey Cohen (cello)

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Will Doty (keyboards)

Aidan Ritchie (drums)

John Sutphin (vocals, guitar)

Luke Pinkowski
(guitar)

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