The Dumb Poet

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The Dumb Poet:

No particular poet but a song for all creative people who often have to conquer difficulties. They are often posthumously proclaimed to be a genius:

He started out in life, with the aid of a surgeon’s knife.
The damage it was done, to this young mother’s son.
The words in his head, they would go unsaid.
Learn your lessons well.

They exclude him from school, a stupid young dumb fool.
Many hours he spent, in watchful intent.
Of the flowers and the bees, the birds in the trees.
Leaning his lessons well.

Meagre were his means, as he captured the scenes.
In the words that he wrote down, that stupid young dumb clown.
After he was dead, a genius they said.
Learn your lessons well.

The scholars and scribes, strain their minds and eyes.
Meaning for to find, just what lay behind.
The words that he chose, for the poems and prose.
Learn your lessons well.

Sue Oldreive: Vocals
David Jacob: Fiddles
George Whitfield: Accordion
Paul: Guitars, Bass, Vocals