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Sometimes I Feel Like a Niblingless Aunt

from Baseball Boy and Other Cow Children Singpieces by Cow Children

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I like this song! My sister Hannah Goudie-Hunter is singing it.

A nibling is the child of a sibling - a gender-neutral term for the child of a sibling (the male and female terms being nephew and niece). A pibling is a parent's sibling (for which aunt and uncle are the gendered terms). 'Pibling' is a horrible word, sounding like piddling.

Bessie Hickman's nibling (who may or may not ever have existed) and child (my girl, her sibling and brother) are two of the five non-binary characters in this story joining Ramsay McDonald, Old Geraghty (probably) and Ross's child Fennel.

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I come from Bloodville, its five days ride thataway
Come to give warning, the child’s a fiend
Listen I urge you, listen I beg you
My town is a mortuary since baseball boy intervened!

Am E/G#
Sometimes I feel like a childless mother
Am Fdim
and baseball has stolen my children away
Am Dm6/F
I lost my girl and her sibling and brother
Am Dm E4 Am
I sent them to play now their bodies decay
Dm Am
Who knew that this sport was the ruinous sort
Dm Am Fdim
that makes children smoke cigarettes, swear and drink port
Am Fdim
Their souls crumbled easily, moral decay.
Am Dm Am
Their bodies all followed, they died yesterday.

Sometimes I feel like niblingless aunt
Since baseball has stolen the souls of my kin
They said they could handle the game, but they can’t
For baseballs a sin, and it robbed them of skin
Who warned me that baseball would make every face fall?
And turn them to blasphemy, lies and wood alcohol
Now they are bodies with nothing within
Identical grave for identical twin

(Sometimes I feel that there’s nothing I’ve left.
For baseball has taken my hope and my friends
I’m fully bereft by their spiritual theft
For all of my family met permanent ends)

Who gains from this misery, who from this curse
The baseball boy, burdensome, squat and perverse
Never play baseball, and never take meth.
These actions are fatal, you’ll go to your death.

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from Baseball Boy and Other Cow Children Singpieces, released August 31, 2021
Vocals by Hannah Goudie-Hunter

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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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