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Long Summer

from River Of Dreams by Johnny Coppin

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A powerful and passionate evocation of summer by Laurie Lee, one of England’s finest writers and poets. From the collection My Many-Coated Man published in 1955. Set to music ahead of Laurie Lee’s Centenary in 2014 and arranged in 2020 with John Broomhall’s wonderful piano and coda

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Gold as an infant’s humming dream,
Stamped with its timeless, tropic blush,
The steady sun stands in the air
And burns like Moses’ holy bush.
And burns while nothing it consumes;
The smoking branch but greener grows,
The crackling briar, from budded lips,
A floating stream of blossom blows.

A daze of hours, a blaze of noons,
Licks my cold shadow from the ground;
A flaming trident rears each dawn
To stir the blood of earth around.
Unsinged beneath the furnace sky
The frenzied beetle runs reborn,
The ant his antic mountain moves,
The rampant ram rewinds his horn.

I see the crazy bees drop fat
From tulips ten times gorged and dry;
I see the sated swallow plunge
To drink the dazzled waterfly.
A halo flares around my head,
A sunflower flares across the sun,
While down the summer’s seamless haze
Such feasts of milk and honey run;
That lying with my orchid love,
Whose kiss no frost of age can sever,
I cannot doubt the cold is dead,
The gold earth turned to good forever.

credits

from River Of Dreams, released February 16, 2022
A poem by Laurie Lee: music by Johnny Coppin – PRS/MCPS.
Johnny Coppin - lead vocal, and acoustic guitar
John Broomhall - piano and keyboard

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Johnny Coppin Stroud, UK

"The quality of his singing and outstanding songwriting surely merit even greater recognition" - RnR magazine

“Unquestionably at the top of his game” - Acoustic magazine

A singer/songwriter and co-founder of the folk band Decameron, Johnny has gone on to record over twelve albums including The Winding Stair, and Borderland. Playing guitar and piano, his music is always melodic and evocative.
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