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I vacilated on the tone of this episode. At first there were three villagers (Old Geraghty, Ross and Eliphaz the Temanite) and they had lots of silly jokes, but I got annoyed, thinking how if I died this could be my final episode and my legacy, so I cut Eliphaz (I didn't like the voice I was doing, cos it sounded to comedy), and made their content much shorter and more drama.

The story still turns around abruptly when Holly Jolly Hugelarge puts in an apperance, and this fart is the other legacy of that. Cow Children will continue to remind you of your own mortality, and undermine itself. This time it just did it more quickly.

Boring fact: I sung while playing the keyboard for this. In almost any other song you've ever heard from me the instruments and vocals were done separately.

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Dm A4/C
When I was a child, I cried so well and so fully
Bb6 A
When my hamster died I wept and sobbed for days
For little woolly.
Dm
His four feet pointing in the air.
F/C
There was no life there.
Bb
I sobbed for days, and so they said,
A
You must have a big heart
Dm

Dm A4/D
Now I am grown, it’s so hard to cry
Bb
No matter how my heart may ache,
A4
my sympathy
Dm
Why so numb?

Why won’t the tears come
The tears will not come.
Our children were blown apart.
My heart was big
Have I outgrown the heart

In days of yore, when kings would die
And all the subjects mourn in deepest agony
There was anguish
Beyond all language
Now I cannot cry, do I have to make a pretence
Make of the funerals
Now just song and dance.

I used to have a big heart
I used to have a big heart

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from Baseball Boy and Other Cow Children Singpieces, released August 31, 2021

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Ben Swithen Sheffield, UK

Ben Swithen is a person.

Here you can find their music - solo work, and a Doctor-Who- and-Cheese double-concept concept-album by The Potential Bees (who are a two- or three- person band), which forces both concepts into every song).

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