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Less Is More

from Black & Ginger by Churn Milk Joan

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he went to town
in the driving rain
that turned to snow
he told his young niece Josephine
"you just hang onto my coat"

it didn't matter he was blind from birth
he always made his way
the wind and ice
the perpetual dark
it was just another day

less is more...

warming up at the general store
she got a pickle from the pickle jar
they went to visit aunt Marianne
across the tracks it's not too far

she say "Melvin you're a damn fool
walking on a night like this!"
"well it ain't nothing I ain't done before,
the good lord is watching out for us"

in his lost carnival
from the sky right to the floor
in his lost carnival
always less is more

less is more...

he made that trip
that windy road
through winter sun and summer rain
well into his 70s
nothing much would change

but it snowed all night
and the next day too
old Melvin must've stayed at home
when the snowplow came they found him
buried in the snow

in his lost carnival


lyrics by Richard Knutson 2012

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from Black & Ginger, released May 16, 2012
Knutson/Robinson

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Churn Milk Joan Hebden Bridge, UK

Music created by American Richard Knutson and Englishman Colin Robinson.

"One of the most extraordinary outfits I ever heard. Intriguing, irreverent and funny as Hell"

Sadly, Richard died from Motor Neuron Disease in March 2020.
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