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The Hit World Of​.​.​. Marthas & Arthurs (1st album)

by Marthas & Arthurs

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    "a pastoral Abba or Belle & Sebastian backing Mamas & Papas"
    -The Guardian

    "swooning and sumptuous, deserves a hit or two"
    -Q Magazine

    "rather brilliant" - Jarvis Cocker, BBC 6 Music

    "hot tracks - child-friendly harmony- based folk" - The Sun

    "beautifully played and unobtrusively sung, 'The Hit World Of...' is really quite the tonic. Mesmerising" - Record Collector

    "way better than Abba" - Cerys Matthews, BBC 6 Music
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1.
I Won't Stop 03:06
I Won't Stop Gather round and there'll be tales for you Gather round and there'll be tales It's never awkward as long as you pay Gather sun and there'll be hay for you Gather sun and there'll be hay Plus expenses and various bills I don't believe in sugaring pills Did you ever see it this way? You could never bring me to say It's weighing me down but I won't stop It's weighing me down so beware It's weighing me down but I won't stop Please read me your prayers You wrote your book down in the safe house Wrote your book down where it's safe It's the page turns you know I can't bear Cash your chips and I'll be there for you Cash your chips and I'll be there Oh in an ice age you know I'll be there In an ice age you know I'll be there Did you ever see it this way? You could never bring me to say It's weighing me down but I won't stop It's weighing me down so beware It's weighing me down but I won't stop Please read me your prayers
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Ape on a Train Called Jane Scruffy as sin and bargain bound Beer in her hand and eight lives down On the night train, my my Cheek on the glass, so far so good She'll find out what her heart is beating for In the night-time, Saturday She'll rush through her thrills and burn out fast If you knew what I know you'd turn around She's crushed in her box She's come she's gone, on her way Find me the girl beneath the thief No gods no cash no masters and no direction, my my my Chin on her hand, so far so good She'll find out what her heart is beating for In the night-time, Saturday Ape on a train She's called Jane Wearing pretty clothes Some of them don't go And her clothes are stole She'll rush through her thrills and burn out fast If you knew what I know you'd turn around She's crushed in her box She's come she's gone, on her way Ape on a train She's called Jane Wearing pretty clothes Some of them don't go And her clothes are stole
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Counting the Colours Til Friday It's dangerous to go where the streets and jazz are free It's dangerous to go looking for flowers there I thought you should know you might fall apart I thought you should know I already did Fa fa so la tee doh Fa fa thought you should know Sometimes fall asleep at the wheel Cos I'm counting the colours til Friday You know, you know how it must feel To be counting the colours til Friday Can you hear them scream for more more more They live in each others' fists, they live in the undersky If music was made for those the slowly blind For those with two ears struggling to hear They'll run out of time Sometimes fall asleep at the wheel Cos I'm counting the colours til Friday You know, you know how it must feel To be counting the colours til Friday Golden girl where did you learn To tie your tongue like that? Sometimes fall asleep at the wheel Cos I'm counting the colours til Friday You know, you know how it must feel To be counting the colours til Friday
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Who Will Marry Me? So your moment came you were sitting on the loo Thinking of the things you wished you had the balls to do Your dark side was loud and clear deep down in the dumps Picking over cracking bones and old breadcrumbs Look at you you're just a joke with ketchup on your tie Not to mention collars - they'd give the dead a fright Your leather and your motorbikes won't help you know But I've still got my poetry and you've lost your fake tan And I see apes in the aeroplanes and fish in the trees And when all is said and done who will marry me? Meander here wander there just go as you please That's no way to live your life as far as I can see I thought I sent my form in to the powers that be With your memory like a civet you probably sent a tree I love the smell of morning in the morning when we rise The market hates uncertainty so wake and hold on tight Flat head, countersunk or just zinc-coated I don't care just screw them all hard against the wall And I see apes in the aeroplanes and fish in the trees And when all is said and done who will marry me? What the devil have you done to the jewel in your crown? I bought a bird of paradise I put my payment down I wish upon the satellites as good as all the stars I wish upon the city lights and pushing taxi cars My family trees a sorry tale I tell it in the pub Except there's no-one listening just coin-collecting cubs Some years ago I fell to earth and landed in the woods Maybe you are half a tree with only half your goods And I see apes in the aeroplanes and fish in the trees And when all is said and done who will marry me?
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Sally Started It All I just heard that Sally's getting married It's no good saying I told you, I told you so She'll dazzle, she'll dazzle like a diamond With her eyes a-shining, I told you so And her hand on the knife on the day She'll cut her wedding cake This much I know Oh Sally started it all And if she could she would be here singing now It's three years since we were singing only I keep the things she showed me Not face the other way I bet you that she'd be mortified Her handbag by her side saying 'how can that be?' And now she works in TV In Washington DC This much I know Oh Sally started it all And if she could she would be here singing now You know how bees die after they sting you It was a little bit like that So we dug a hole and moved the whole nest And found another patch of tree This much I know Oh Sally started it all And if she could she would be here singing This much I know Oh Sally started it all And if she could she would be here singing now
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Barberosophy 01:42
Barberosophy Flies buzz around us And we buzz around trees And trees buzz around mountains And mountains buzz around planets And planets buzz around suns And suns buzz around galaxies And galaxies buzz around universes So what do universes buzz around?
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Clamour For A Fudge There's a place I used to know For the money men who watch their money grow Never did much passing trade So the place bled dry They worked and they slaved and they hated their work So they taxed and they shaved as their friends told them Clamour for a fudge, just because Flip your pillow to the cold side Comb the wreckage for the missing girl who died So you joined the high speed chase With a skinful of beer They carved and they cleaved suffocated their dreams And they tore and they patched as their phones Clamoured for a fudge, no such luck So the towel was soon thrown in Full of holes and wearing thin Could have made the perfect shroud If you're not too proud All the graves had been dug so we strutted our stuff All the strips had been torn and the war lately won And the meaning supplied and their relatives informed Of the fudge, nudge nudge There's a place I used to know back before the war
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Hey Ho, Ho Hum, What Fun Something in the way and she'll never recover To get back to where she was They always said didn't they that life's for living So go, soldier on Never understand what she had in her hands Never know how she crushed to death The very thing that's true that was worth saving Like a dead stuffed cat So she whiles away her days... Hey Ho, Ho Hum, What Fun You know sometimes she wants her laughing gas You know sometimes she drinks her beer and wine If it's mine, especially mine People never said it would be this crazy A cat got all their tongues Maybe they were trying to avoid a scene By being so British Every cold morning it's the same story Always chilled to the tip of her toes How's it going to be when she hits 40 A creature in a rucsac So she whiles away her days... Hey Ho, Ho Hum, What Fun You know sometimes she wants her laughing gas You know sometimes she drinks her beer and wine If it's mine, especially mine
10.
Vine Leaves in Her Hair I see you've become one of many I see you reborn one of them I couldn't care less if you're prevailing My winds they will blow you all away Can you hold back the river Can you hold up the game Cos when she's there she'll fill your head With vine leaves in her hair I know where you sat back in the classroom Who talk you to talk, taught you to see I know what you'll gasp as you're drowning I know what you wish when you're in love And you're so damn reasonable And you're so brave and vain But when she's there return her stare With vine leaves in her hair A crackpot is you, now that's your label I couldn't resist putting it down And visions of you as you're older I scribble them down and set them all loose If you can't see my mirrors Then I can't see you And then she's there bullish and bare With vine leaves in her hair
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Awkward Holidays When I get home, I see you sit there Oblivionize, what I have done today And you, you make me see You make it seem, oh it's nothing to me With you, no more awkward holidays When I am down, and it's hard to be me You chase it away, what went wrong today And you, you make it seem You make it seem, oh it's nothing to me With you, no more awkward holidays Wild imaginations watching private celebrations While the world unties You supply the meaning, I'll supply the means While the world unties And you, you make me see You make it seem, oh it's nothing to me With you, no more awkward holidays

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released April 16, 2012

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Second album
'More International Hits' now on general release, CD & download.
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First track 'Farlow' available as FREE DOWNLOAD.
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First album, 'The Hit World Of... Marthas & Arthurs' still available on CD & download.
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Band STORY & PICTURES here: dinnerdownloads.tumblr.com
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Detailed BAND BIO in the 'about' section on Facebook: www.facebook.com/marthasandarthurs
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