Button Boots from Hobgoblin's Hat by Allysen Callery
Tracklist
| 5. | Button Boots | 4:35 |
Lyrics
5.Button Boots
They whisper with
the heads together
wearing black in the Winter
brown in the Summer
Pomegranates & alabaster
behind a cupped hand
trickled laughter
the great
hooded snake
slithered hither
to taste
the soft place
behind an ankle…
he was soon crushed underfoot,
one of them was wearing
buttoned boots
They’d whisper with
their heads together
stiff as a board
light as a feather
lighting candles with wooden matches
red is the color of desire
green for wealth & blue
communion
If there was a wolf
they didn’t know him
If ever was a bear
they’d never own him
One found a silver mirror
given by an old friend
it was then they’d never
speak again…..
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" Her lilting voice and heartfelt lyrics are eerily close to the work of the late British songstress Sandy Denny, the highest compliment I could hand down to this brilliant artist."- Paste Magazine
Allysen Callery is a self-taught folk artist from Bristol, Rhode Island. Growing up she was heavily influenced by her parent's British Isles Folk Revival records of the late 60′s early 70′s .