Name: I Cannot Sing The Old Songs
Duration: P00H02M50S
Description: This is a bit of an exception in the BTO songbook coming from the era of Victorian parlour music, written by ‘Claribel’ whose real name was Charlotte Alington Barnard (1830-1869) and seems to have been the closest thing to Coldplay in the 19th century. She died fairly young not long after it turned out her father had stole a load of money including hers.

I Cannot Sing The Old Songs

from The Seven Curses Of The Music Hall by The Blood Tub Orchestra

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This is a bit of an exception in the BTO songbook coming from the era of Victorian parlour music, written by ‘Claribel’ whose real name was Charlotte Alington Barnard (1830-1869) and seems to have been the closest thing to Coldplay in the 19th century. She died fairly young not long after it turned out her father had stole a load of money including hers.

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I cannot sing the old songs,
I sung long years ago
For heart and voice would fail me,
And foolish tears would flow;
For bygone hours come o'er my heart,
with each familiar strain
I cannot sing the old songs,
Or dream those dreams again.

I cannot sing the old songs,
Their charm is sad and deep;
Their melodies would waken
Old sorrows from their sleep;
And though all unforgotten still,
and sadly sweet they be,
I cannot sing the old songs,
They are too dear to me.

I cannot sing the old songs,
For visions come again,
Of golden dreams departed
And years of weary pain;
Perhaps when earthly fetters
shall have set my spirit free,
My voice may know the old songs,
For all eternity.

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from The Seven Curses Of The Music Hall, released April 29, 2018

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The Blood Tub Orchestra London, UK

Songs of the British Music Hall as no one intended them to be heard!

A London based musical rabble (as in Websters definition of ‘a large group of loud people who could become violent.’). A group of individuals now busy dragging up evil smelling offerings from demolished music halls, deconsecrated chapels and boarded up public houses. ... more

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