THE PLIGHT

by Larry Yates

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Also included as a Bonus song with download of the "At The Gate" album. There were two songs that were recorded but didn't make it to my, "At The Gate" LP. This was the second one.
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THE PLIGHT
©1969 AT THE GATE PUBLISHING / SOCAN

Tell me, do you have any colour in mind?
Tell me, do you have any colour to find?
When somebody tells you she's lowly,
Do you look and call to her slow?
When she looks to you for an answer,
Begging with eyes that enhance her,
Do you care …a little? …at all?

She can see now,
The things she remembers,
All too well;
For staring her right in the face
Is a man, who resembles
The entrance of hell!

Lately the embers are scorching the bud,
Mocking the flowers to come before.
Singeing its beauty and baking its blood,
The vastness of birth at its door.
Moments pass heavy
With burdening threat;
Ashes call up from the crumbling soil.
Warning that all living things have a debt
…All life returns to the soil.
Oh, Marlena …"Cherry Of The Wood".

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THE PLIGHT
©1969 AT THE GATE PUBLISHING / SOCAN

Tell me, do you have any colour in mind?
Tell me, do you have any colour to find?
When somebody tells you she's lowly,
Do you look and call to her slow?
When she looks to you for an answer,
Begging with eyes that enhance her,
Do you care …a little? …at all?

She can see now,
The things she remembers,
All too well;
For staring her right in the face
Is a man, who resembles
The entrance of hell!

Lately the embers are scorching the bud,
Mocking the flowers to come before.
Singeing its beauty and baking its blood,
The vastness of birth at its door.
Moments pass heavy
With burdening threat;
Ashes call up from the crumbling soil.
Warning that all living things have a debt
…All life returns to the soil.
Oh, Marlena …"Cherry Of The Wood".

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released July 2, 2017
Recorded at Kinck Sound in Toronto - Thanks to engineers Fred Petersen and Paul Bonish and to my Dad the late Sid Yates for his mandolin work... also the late Mark Selkirk for his drumming.

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