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Civil Service

from The Charcoal Pool by We Are Muffy

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What do you do all day, why do they call it Civil Service?
Put the goods in your briefcase and bring them home.
Batteries, bikelamps, soap and solder,
Something expensive.
A balsawood aeroplane or a bar of Toblerone.

What's new on this of all days?
What's in that bundle?
What made you want to turn the tables?

Phyllis, you weighed my daddy down with treasure,
Won't you listen, I ask you, what's that sound?

Phyllis, you left us all a burden so light,
Now what's the meaning, you tell me, of these words?

This isn't what we're used to,
These things don't grow on trees.
Put them on the turning table.

One, two, a bottle of shampoo,
Three, four, a rotten apple core.
Alpha beta gamma delta,
You stole the mats from the helter skelter.

Phyllis, you weighed my daddy down with treasure,
Won't you listen, I ask you, what's that sound?

Phyllis, you left us all a burden so light,
Now what's the meaning, you tell me, of these words?

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from The Charcoal Pool, released July 20, 2018

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We Are Muffy UK

While exploring the cover version as a form of folk music uniquely
defined by the era of sound recording, We Are Muffy fell into writing The Charcoal Pool, songs devoted to the peculiarities of growing up in Birmingham. Into the clear Cornish air they bring a whiff of the gasworks of Nechells, the drone of traffic on the Gravelly Hill Interchange and the splendour of the Chateau Impney. ... more

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