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Track 33 of the 52 songs project

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Byron and Shelly around the table one night,
Young Mary overheard just one line
Story sprang from a seed planted there,
A monster tale a tragic love affair
To and fro right across the way, they were young and so ready to play with the minds of the unknowing

Freethinking’s gonna do you no good, when the church puts you in a mood.
And writing ghost stories ain’t no joke, except the ones about the holy host.
Sitting around altering your mind, trying to get all the planets aligned, wondering why she was so twisted

Shelley’s boat goes down
Sank in a storm out of leghorn
Washed up man the love was cold, burn the body not the soul
Shelley’s boat goes down

Take you back to when he was 18
Mrs Nicholson kept his sheets clean
Took him a while to get the job done
She made all the boys tingle while she scrubbed
Gentry man living where it’s at, a touch of brandy and a mercury hat.
Won’t take no seat between the nobles

I take you down to the watery grave
Young Harriet went the same way
They found her floating in a London lake
Just three weeks later he wed again
No widow’s window for the man, who takes his loving when he can
Get dry before you get cremated

And a doppelanger on that fateful day, while Percy was sailing back to Italy
On a schooner by the name of Don Juan.
So the script was written long before the storm
A boat fit for a libertine, a man who wrote and thought and dreamed
Take me back Marlow

Washed up man, love was cold burn the body not the soul

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from Tracks 27​-​39 of the 52 songs project, track released August 18, 2012

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Dave Walker made his first record in 1998 and has been churning them out ever since. Variety of styles and a whole range of different musicians.

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